Distort vs Skewed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between distort and skewed

is that distort is to bring something out of shape while skewed is (skew).

is that distort is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen while skewed is twisted at an angle.

(en verb)

To bring something out of shape.

(ergative) To become misshapen.

To give a false or misleading account of

In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

* distorter

(en adjective)

(obsolete) distorted; misshapen

* Spenser

Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .

(head)

Twisted at an angle.

Biased, distorted (pertaining to statistics or information).

(head)

(skew)