to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed

Arthritis had distorted his fingers.

to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent

to distort the facts.

Electronics . to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave.

verb

beautify , shape nicely , straight

verb

alter , angle , belie , bend , bias , buckle , change , collapse , color , con , contort , crush , curve , deceive , decline , deteriorate , deviate , disfigure , doctor * , fake , fudge * , garble , gnarl , knot , lie , make out like , mangle , melt , misconstrue , misinterpret , misrepresent , misshape , pervert , phony up , put one on , sag , scam * , slant , slump , snow * , torture , trump up , twist , warp , whitewash * , wind , wrench , writhe , falsify , load , misstate , wrest , deform , doctor , skew