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Twisted

adjective

1.

Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented. Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, perverted. "A perverted translation of the poem"

Twist

verb

(past & past part. twisted; pres. part. twisting)

1.

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling). Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe. "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

2.

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form. Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn. "Twist the dough into a braid" , "The strong man could turn an iron bar" Antonym: unbend.

3.

Turn in the opposite direction.

4.

Form into a spiral shape. Synonyms: distort, twine. Antonym: untwist.

5.

Form into twists.

6.

Extend in curves and turns. Synonyms: curve, wind. "The path twisted through the forest"

7.

Do the twist.

8.

Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates. Synonym: wrench. "Wrench oneself free from somebody's grip" , "A deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

9.

Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive. Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around.

10.

Twist suddenly so as to sprain. Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick. "The wrestler twisted his shoulder" , "The hikers sprained their ankles when they fell" , "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

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"Twisted" Quotes from Famous Books

... soft slopes bordered by mountain-ridges, all scarped and twisted, having dark green draperies of pine trees cast round their strong limbs, with bees humming in the aromatic yet invigorating breeze fresh from the snow-fields, and swallows wheeling in the clear blue air, until we reached a fertile amphitheatre. A confusion of flourishing villages was scattered ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various

... that," he assured the fellow who had made the arrest, but, instead of heeding his words, the men on each side of the Jamaican twisted stoutly, forcing the black boy to cry out in pain. ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach

... freely. For here to know is to love. But one day a bad choice was made. And the choice made an ugly kink in his will. The whole trouble began there. A man sees through his will. That is his medium for the transmission of light. If it be twisted, his seeing, his understanding, is twisted. The twist in the will regulates the twist in the eye. Both ways, too, for a good change in the will in turn changes the eyes back to seeing straight. He that is willing to do the right ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... at me, "you won't inform on me just for that? I asked you to help me; you were free to refuse—and you agreed! Because it inconvenienced you a little, are you going to turn police agent?" Her red lips twisted proudly, scornfully. "I ...

— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... cannot supply. In after-years we may have perhaps a newer and more daring Arts and Crafts Exhibition. In it we shall not decorate the armour of the twelfth century but the machinery of the twentieth. A lamp-post shall be wrought nobly in twisted iron, fit to hold the sanctity of fire. A pillar-box shall be carved with figures emblematical of the secrets of comradeship and the silence and honour of the State. Railway signals, of all earthly things the most poetical, the coloured stars ...

— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton

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