distort
verb (used with object)
to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed.
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Each holds up a perfectly clear and undistorting mirror—Shakespeare to the moral universe, Jane Austen to the little world in which she lived.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith