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warpnoun an immaterial thing upon which something else restsan unshakable belief in the essential goodness of humankind is the warp of his philosophy base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp and woof anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, supportassumption, justification, premise(also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrantbackbone, center, core, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, nucleus, seatessence, quintessence, soul, touchstone warpverbto change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning ofthe faulty English translation really warps the meaning of the original Russian text bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslatebelie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewashbowdlerize, censorcomplicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)mystify, obscureequivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell outdecipher to lower in character, dignity, or qualityclaims that violent movies warp the values of our young people abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, vitiate befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weakendescenddisgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take downblemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreckdepreciate, downgrade elevate, ennoble, uplift dignify, exalt, honorameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfectclarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restorerespect to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or conditionfreezing warped the plastic, and now the cover won't fit contort, deform, distort, misshape, screw, squinch, torture deface, disfigurewrench, wrest, wringcoil, curl, loop, spiral, twine, wind, wreathe straighten, unbend, uncurl v.deform, distort, contort, warp means to mar or spoil by or as if by twisting.deform may imply a change of shape through stress, injury, or accident of growth.a face deformed by hatred distort and contort both imply a wrenching from the natural or normal, but contort suggests a more involved twisting and a more grotesque and painful result.the odd camera angle distorts the figure disease had contorted her body warp indicates an uneven shrinking that bends or twists out of a flat plane.warped floorboards before the 12th century |