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TWISTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
Example:
a perverted translation of the poem
Synonyms:
distorted; misrepresented; perverted; twisted
Classified under:
Similar:
artful; disingenuous (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb twist
Context examples:
He had come into the world with a twisted body and a brute intelligence.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Instead of answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically twisted about without regard.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
When I heard your cry and ran forward, and saw your head twisted half-off and your stohwassers kickin' in the air, I thought we were one short.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A long slender flexible material usually consisting of several strands woven or twisted together; a part of the body resembling a cord.
(Cord, NCI Thesaurus)
This modest increase resulted in mitochondria that became thinner and more twisted than mitochondria in healthy heart cells.
(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Tangles are abnormal masses of twisted protein threads inside cells made mainly of a modified form of the protein tau.
(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)
To make the yarns highly elastic, they introduced so much twist that the yarns coiled like an over-twisted rubber band.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A twisted curved structure such as a coil spring or corkscrew.
(Helix, NCI Thesaurus)
