1.  distort(v = verb.communication) falsify, garble, warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story;
is one way to belie, misrepresent
Derived forms noun distortion₆, noun distortion₅, noun distortion₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  distort(v = verb.contact) twine, twist - form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
is one way to change form, change shape, deform
Derived form noun distortion₂
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP

3.  distort(v = verb.contact) contort, deform, wring - twist and press out of shape;
is one way to distort, twine, twist
Derived form noun distortion₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  distort(v = verb.communication) color, colour, tinge - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
is one way to affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

5.  distort(v = verb.change) deform, strain - alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
is one way to form, shape
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

distort, v.tr.
1 a put out of shape; make crooked or unshapely. b distort the appearance of, esp. by curved mirrors etc.
2 misrepresent (motives, facts, statements, etc.).

Derivative:
distortedly adv. distortedness n.

Etymology:
L distorquere distort- (as DIS-, torquere twist)

VB  be ugly, look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces, render ugly, deface, disfigure, defigure, distort, blemish, soil.

VB  distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

VB  misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply, mistake, misrepresent, pervert, explain wrongly, misstate, garble, distort, detort, travesty, play upon words, stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning, explain away, put a bad construction on, put a false construction on, give a false coloring, be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.

VB  be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.

VB  misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub, burlesque, parody, travesty.