Difference between Distort and Falsify

DISTORT vs FALSIFY: NOUN

To twist out of a proper or natural relation of parts; misshape.
To cause to deviate from what is normal, reasonable, or accurate.
To cause distortion in (a signal or waveform, for example).
To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically.
To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert.

To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with.
To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
To baffle or escape.
To make false; to represent falsely.
To counterfeit; to forge.
To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
To violate; to break by falsehood.

As of a message or story
To misapply, misuse.
Synonyms and To contort, deform, bend.
To wrest from the true meaning; pervert the truth regarding; misrepresent.
Hence—2. To turn away or pervert; cause to give or to receive erroneous views or impressions; mislead; bias.
To twist or wrest out of shape; alter the shape of; change from the proper to an improper or unnatural shape; represent by an image having a shape somewhat different from nature.
Twisted out of shape; distorted.

To show to be erroneous or incorrect; disprove: as, the event falsified his words.
To violate; break by falsehood or treachery: as, to falsify one's faith or word.
To cause to fail or become false; baffle; make useless: as, to falsify a person's aim.
To feign, as a blow. Same as false, v. t., 5.
In law: To prove to be false, as a judgment; avoid or defeat.
In equity, to show to be erroneous, as an item claimed on the credit side of an account.
To tell falsehoods; lie; violate the truth.
To make false or deceptive; cause to vary from truth or genuineness; change so as to deceive; sophisticate; adulterate; misrepresent: as, to falsify accounts, weights and measures, or commodities; to falsify a person's meaning.
To make a false representation of; counterfeit; forge.
As of a message or story

Skew, Mislead, Confuse, Distortion, Undermine, Strain, Color, Twist, Wring, Warp, Garble, Deform, Disfigure, Contort, Falsify

Doctor, Forge, Counterfeit, Tamper, Garble, Warp, Cook, Wangle, Interpolate, Alter, Fudge, Misrepresent, Fake, Distort, Manipulate

Misinterpret, Skew, Mislead, Confuse, Distortion, Undermine, Strain, Color, Twist, Warp, Garble, Deform, Disfigure, Contort, Falsify

Spoof, Doctor, Forge, Counterfeit, Tamper, Garble, Warp, Cook, Interpolate, Alter, Fudge, Misrepresent, Fake, Distort, Manipulate

Did they falsify their graphs to "hide" the "inconvenient truth"?.
I feel like those things are generally hard to falsify.
Scam artists and professionals tenants know how to falsify information.
Did you deliberately falsify any information on your application forms?
It is a criminal offense to knowingly falsify details.
The irony is that other folks also falsify documents.
NFCA has actually instructed these agencies to falsify information.
Also, one observation does not falsify a theory.
Students must not falsify or make up data.
More specifics on documents that people attempt to falsify and the reasons why they attempt to falsify.