Distort vs Transmute - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between distort and transmute

is that distort is to bring something out of shape while transmute is .

is that distort is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen while transmute is transmuted.

(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 .

(transmut)

To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.

The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.

To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.

Did the base metals transmute to gold?