Distort

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. Whose face was distorted with pain. Thackeray.

2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. Tillotson.

3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

Synonyms: twist; wrest; deform; pervert.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.