Impartial or generic word for both stretch/dilate and squeeze/compress

Is there a word that refers to squeezing/compression or stretching/dilation while being impartial to the “direction”? For example, shift does not denote which direction is being moved in.

• Malleate doesn’t quite work and is quite obscure, given by Merriam-Webster as “to beat or mark or dent (a metal) with a hammer in working or decorating”. It also has no synonyms given anywhere I can find.
• Transform is how it is referred to in mathematical settings but doesn’t work for other situations.
• Adapt or alter are not specific enough in what is happening to the object
• Edit: Scale or resize do not work as they imply that only the size of the object changes and not its shape

Sentence examples:

• The object was __ by the atmospheric pressure
• Please __ the square peg to make it fit in the round hole

(The object could have been made smaller or larger in either scenario.)