verb
- To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling. )
- usage: "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
- Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.
- usage: "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
- Turn in the opposite direction.
- usage: "twist one's head"
- synonyms: twist
- Form into a spiral shape.
- usage: "The cord is all twisted"
- Form into twists.
- usage: "Twist the strips of dough"
- synonyms: twist
- Extend in curves and turns.
- usage: "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
- Do the twist.
- synonyms: twist
- Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates.
- usage: "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"
- Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
- usage: "Don't twist my words"
- synonyms: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate
- Twist suddenly so as to sprain.
- usage: "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"
adjective
- Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented.
- usage: "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
- synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, perverted
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