Bible Dictionaries
Distort

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Distorted; misshapen.

(2):

(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

(3):

(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

(4):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Distort'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/distort.html. 1828.