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deface collapse: deface a building facade, for example; mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"

mangle collapse: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers; alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"; press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

misconstrue collapse: interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"

misread collapse: interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"; read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data"

misapply collapse: apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly; "The words are misapplied in this context"; "You are misapplying the name of this religious group"

falsify collapse: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"; prove false; "Falsify a claim"; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

buckle collapse: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong; fold or collapse; "His knees buckled"; fasten with a buckle or buckles

twirl collapse: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

twine collapse: make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope"; coil around; "Wisteria twining the fence posts"

corkscrew collapse: a bottle opener that pulls corks; move in a spiral or zigzag course

writhe collapse: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

deform collapse: alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"; become misshapen; "The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake"; make formless; "the heat deformed the plastic sculpture"

mistake collapse: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"; an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"; identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"

grimace collapse: a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"; contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

gnarl collapse: twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

wrest collapse: obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

worm collapse: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae; screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack; a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"; a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

scallop collapse: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions; edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces; one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.); shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"; fish for scallops; form scallops in; "scallop the meat"; bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

wring collapse: twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"; twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

pervert collapse: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior; change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

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