Contort vs Misshape - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between contort and misshape

is that contort is to twist in a violent manner; as, features contorted with fury while misshape is to shape badly or incorrectly.

(obsolete) a misshapen person; a misshapen body.

(en verb)

To twist in a violent manner; as, features contorted with fury.

To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.

* deform * detort * twist

* contortion * contortive English ergative verbs

(en noun)

(obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.12:

*:The one of them, that elder did appeare, / With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew, / That her mis-shape much helpt [...].

A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price.

*1995 , (Jarvis Cocker) et al., "Mis-Shapes":

*:Mis-shapes , mistakes, misfits / Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.

To shape badly or incorrectly.