Another word for distorting

Lassalle) represent the Stoics as merely diluting and distorting Heracliteanism.

Now this is exactly the shape which we should expect to find in molecules composed of two spherical atoms distorting one another by their mutual forces, and all gases for which n=2 are diatomic.

Thus driven back upon himself, Schopenhauer fell into morbid meditations, and the world which he saw, if it was stripped naked of its disguises, lost its proportions in the distorting light.

I find Lipstadt's unsustainable allegations of manipulating, distorting, and skewing documents and quotations highly defamatory.

distorting prism of the BBC.