Adjective
1. strained or wrenched out of normal shape;
"old trees with contorted branches""scorched and distorted fragments of steel""trapped under twisted steel girders"2. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly;
"deformed thalidomide babies""his poor distorted limbs""an ill-shapen vase""a limp caused by a malformed foot""misshapen old fingers"3. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented;
"many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality""a perverted translation of the poem"