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twistingadjective marked by a long series of irregular curvesa twisting mountain road that requires extra careful driving bending, crazy, crooked, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, winding, windy zigzag, zigzaggingcircling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling(or spiralling), swirlingcircuitous, indirect, roundaboutmeandering, rambling, wanderingirregular, jagged, uneven straight, straightaway direct, linear twistingnouna forceful rotating or pulling motion for the purpose of dislodging somethingit took some twisting, but I finally got the top off the jar twist, wrench, wrenching, wresting, wringing draft, draw, extraction, pull, tug, yankdislocation, displacement twistingverbpresent participle of twistto change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning ofmy enemies will twist my words, but you'll only hear the truth out of me bending, coloring, cooking, distorting, falsifying, fudging, garbling, misinterpreting, misrelating, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, slanting, warping misdescribing, misspeaking, mistranslatingbelying, camouflaging, disguising, dissembling, glossing (over), masking, veiling, whitewashingbowdlerizing, censoringcomplicating, confounding, confusing, mistaking, mixing (up)mystifying, obscuringequivocating, fibbing, lying, paltering, prevaricating clarifying, clearing (up), explaining, illuminating, illustrating, interpreting, spelling outdeciphering to follow a circular or spiral coursethe path gently twisted down the hill coiling, corkscrewing, curling, entwining, spiraling(or spiralling), twining, winding arching, arcing, bending, crooking, curving, hooking, sweeping, swerving, turning, veering, wheelingswirling, whirlingcircling, encircling, loopingenlacing, interlacing, intertwining, lacingbowing, bulgingmeandering, weaving, zigzagging straightening to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axistwisted my wrist around to stretch it pivoting, revolving, rolling, rotating, spinning, swinging, swirling, swiveling(or swivelling), turning, twirling, wheeling, whirling screwing, unscrewingtwiddlingcoiling, cranking, reeling, windingcirculating to move by or as if by a forceful rotationkept twisting the cap until it came free wrenching, wresting, wringing drawing, dredging (up), extracting, jerking, lugging, plucking, pulling, tugging, tweaking, yankingjimmying, levering, pryingbudging, dislocating, displacing, disturbing, removingshifting, transferring, transposing to make jerky or restless movementsthe dental patient twisted nervously in the chair fiddling, fidgeting, jerking, jigging, jiggling, squiggling, squirming, thrashing, threshing, tossing, twitching, wiggling, wriggling, writhing flitting, fluttering, twitteringquaking, quivering, shaking, shivering, shuddering, tremblingpacing relaxing, resting, unwindingcalming (down), stilling to cause to twine about one anotherhas the habit of idly twisting the strands of her hair while daydreaming enlacing, entwining, implicating(archaic), interlacing, intertwining, intertwisting, interweaving, inweaving, lacing, plying, weaving, wreathing, writhing braiding, plaiting, platting, pleachingblending, fusing, joining, linking, mixing disentangling, uncoiling, untangling, untwining, unwinding ca. 1905 |