Definition of "distort"

distort

/dɪˈstɔɹt/

verb
third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted
1. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
2. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
3. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of
adjective
comparative more distort, superlative most distort
1. (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.
  Quotations
  Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 36