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twisting

noun

1 twisting

The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture.

Dutch: deformatie, vervorming, verrekking

2 twisting

The act of rotating rapidly:
— It broke off after much twisting.

synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl.

Dutch: effect, schroef, spin, wervelbeweging, werveling
Polish: młyniec

adjective

1 twisting

Marked by repeated turns and bends.

synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding.


Moby thesaurus: aberrant, aberrative, abstractionism, abuse of terms, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, braiding, catachresis, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, coloring, contorting ... show more.

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