aberrate

verb2

1. •
   To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.

   • […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […] — 1765
2. •
   To distort; to cause aberration of.

   • He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action. — 1893