distort

Verb

• alter the shape of (something) by stress
  • His body was deformed by leprosy
    

• affect as in thought or feeling
  • My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
    
  • The sadness tinged his life
    

• twist and press out of shape

• form into a spiral shape
  • The cord is all twisted
    

• make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  deform , strain , tinge , color , colour , contort , wring , twist , twine , falsify , garble , warp