DISTORT

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

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

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