twisted
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Twist \Twist\ (tw[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twisted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Twisting}.] [OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made
of two (twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a
quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. tvistr
the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See {Twice}, {Two}.]
1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally;
to convolve.
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Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope.
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2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
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3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part
relatively to another about an axis passing through both;
to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
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4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." --Waller.
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There are pillars of smoke twisted about with
wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet.
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5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible
substance, round another; to form by convolution, or
winding separate things round each other; as, to twist
yarn or thread. --Shak.
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7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
to wreathe; to make up.
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Was it not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak.
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8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
twist wool or cotton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "twisted":
Byzantine, abnormal, affected, afflicted, agonized, anamorphous,
anomalous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed,
asymmetric, balled up, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus,
bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed,
colorable, colored, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
contorted, convoluted, convulsed, cooked, counterfeit,
counterfeited, crabbed, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed,
crazy, crooked, crotchety, crucified, crumpled, crunched, daedal,
defaced, defective, deformed, deviant, deviative, devious,
different, disfigured, distorted, distressed, divergent, doctored,
doctrinaire, dogmatic, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric,
elaborate, embellished, embrangled, embroidered, entangled,
erratic, ersatz, exceptional, factitious, fake, faked, falsified,
faulty, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flawed,
fouled up, freakish, funny, garbled, harrowed, hurt, hurting,
idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, implicated,
in distress, in pain, influenced, interested, intricate, involuted,
involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, kinky,
knotted, know-nothing, kooky, labyrinthian, labyrinthine,
lacerated, lopsided, loused up, maggoty, make-believe, man-made,
many-faceted, marred, martyred, martyrized, matted, mazy,
meandering, messed up, misquoted, misrepresented, mixed up, mock,
mucked up, multifarious, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, nutty, odd,
oddball, on the rack, one-sided, opinionated, pained, partial,
partisan, peculiar, perplexed, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply,
pinchbeck, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, put-on,
quasi, queer, quirky, racist, racked, ramified, roundabout,
scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, screwball, screwed up, screwy,
self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, singular, slanted,
snarled, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, strained,
strange, subtle, suffering, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed,
synthetic, tangled, tangly, tin, tinsel, titivated, tormented,
tortuous, tortured, ultranationalist, unauthentic, unconventional,
under the harrow, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine,
unnatural, unreal, unsymmetric, wacky, warped, whimsical, wounded,
wrung, xenophobic
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