deform

There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.

The medical examiner retrieved a deformed metal projectile.

Amused at his anatomy being dissected in front of him, Elordi claps back, mock-defensively: “He was grotesque to look at, but he was somewhat gifted. A deformed skinny freak.”

When the metal is deformed, dislocations twist and shift, nudging nearby atoms into preferred positions.

Sun, however, had a problem: a deformed finger that slowed him down and drew the ire of his overseers.