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Twisting   /twˈɪstɪŋ/   Listen
Twisting

adjective
1.
Marked by repeated turns and bends.  Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding.  "Winding roads are full of surprises" , "Had to steer the car down a twisty track"
noun
1.
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.  Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture.
2.
The act of rotating rapidly.  Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl.  "It broke off after much twisting"


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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"Twisting" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, who was sitting on the next divan twisting his mustache and talking chiefly with his hands, rolled up and ...
— Crittenden - A Kentucky Story of Love and War • John Fox, Jr.
... top tentatively. "Locked. But perhaps one of Mrs. Inglethorp's keys would open it." He tried several, twisting and turning them with a practiced hand, and finally uttering an ejaculation of satisfaction. "Voila! It is not the key, but it will open it at a pinch." He slid back the roll top, and ran a rapid eye over the neatly filed papers. To my surprise, he ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... Learn, turning away her eyes once more, said with a heavy sigh—gravely, sorrowfully, tenderly even, but as if impelled by respect for truth to give her verdict as she thought it—"It is true if it is hard: you are often stupid. You are stupid now, twisting yourself about like that and making silly speeches. But I like you, for all that, and I respect you. I would as soon expect the sun to go out as for you to do wrong. But I wish you would keep still and not talk so much nonsense ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various
... closed the door, Mary could only stand waiting, a plain little thing, twisting her thin hands together. She could see that the man in the chair was not so much a hunchback as a man with high, rather crooked shoulders, and he had black hair streaked with white. He turned his head over his high shoulders and spoke ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... along the street; Tchelkache twisting his moustache with the important air of an employer, the lad submissively, but at the same time filled with ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky


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