distort

verb

1. (transitive)To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

   “This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue.”

2. (ergative, intransitive)To become misshapen.
3. (transitive)To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.

   “In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Distorted; misshapen.

   “Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.”