twisted

wound or wrapped around something

• “hair twined around her fingers”
• “bulky with twisted stitches around the edges”

strained or wrenched out of normal shape

• “old trees with contorted branches”
• “scorched and distorted fragments of steel”
• “trapped under twisted steel girders”

having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

• “many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality”
• “a perverted translation of the poem”