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twist

turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room"

social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s; "they liked to dance the twist"

a jerky pulling movement

twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough"

practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"

turn in the opposite direction; "twist one's head"

form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"

do the twist

Synonyms:

• a thing for,
• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• action,
• adulterate,
• affinity,
• afflict,
• agonize,
• ail,
• alloy,
• alter,
• alteration,
• anagnorisis,
• analysis,
• anamorphism,
• anamorphosis,
• angle,
• angle off,
• animus,
• approach,
• aptitude,
• aptness,
• architectonics,
• architecture,
• argument,
• aspect,
• asymmetry,
• atmosphere,
• background,
• balmy,
• barmy,
• batty,
• bear off,
• belie,
• bend,
• bent,
• bias,
• birthmark,
• bite,
• blackhead,
• bleb,
• blemish,
• blister,
• bonkers,
• bonus,
• bow,
• braid,
• brail,
• branching off,
• buckle,
• bulla,
• bully,
• bun,
• burlesque,
• burn,
• cable,
• camouflage,
• canker,
• caricature,
• cast,
• catastrophe,
• cavendish,
• chafe,
• change,
• character,
• characterization,
• chaw,
• cheapen,
• check,
• chew,
• chewing tobacco,
• chignon,
• cicatrix,
• cicatrize,
• circle,
• circuitousness,
• circulate,
• circumrotate,
• circumvolute,
• cirrus,
• coarsen,
• coerce,
• coil,
• color,
• coloring,
• comedo,
• complication,
• conatus,
• conduciveness,
• configuration,
• confound,
• constitution,
• construal,
• construction,
• contaminate,
• continuity,
• contort,
• contortion,
• contrivance,
• convulse,
• cord,
• corkscrew,
• corner,
• corrupt,
• crack,
• crank,
• crater,
• craze,
• crazy,
• crinkle,
• crook,
• crookedness,
• crotchet,
• crucify,
• crumple,
• cuckoo,
• cud,
• cue,
• curl,
• curlicue,
• curve,
• cut,
• cut plug,
• daft,
• debase,
• declination,
• decoration,
• deface,
• defacement,
• defect,
• defile,
• deflect,
• deflower,
• deform,
• deformation,
• deformity,
• degenerate,
• degrade,
• delight,
• denature,
• denouement,
• departure,
• deprave,
• desecrate,
• design,
• despoil,
• detorsion,
• detour,
• devalue,
• development,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviate,
• deviation,
• device,
• deviousness,
• diathesis,
• diffract,
• diffuse,
• digression,
• discursion,
• disfiguration,
• disfigure,
• disfigurement,
• disguise,
• disperse,
• disposition,
• disproportion,
• distort,
• distortion,
• distress,
• divagate,
• divagation,
• divarication,
• diverge,
• divergence,
• diversion,
• divert,
• dogleg,
• double,
• dress up,
• drift,
• drifting,
• eagerness,
• eating tobacco,
• eccentric,
• eccentricity,
• effect,
• eidolon,
• embellish,
• embroider,
• enlace,
• entwine,
• episode,
• err,
• errantry,
• evolute,
• exaggerate,
• excruciate,
• excurse,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• exorbitation,
• extra,
• extra added attraction,
• extra dash,
• fable,
• facet,
• failing,
• falling action,
• falsification,
• falsify,
• fashion,
• fault,
• favoritism,
• feature,
• feeling for,
• fester,
• fid,
• figure,
• filigree,
• filling,
• fillip,
• flaw,
• flourish,
• foible,
• force,
• forejudgment,
• form,
• freckle,
• fret,
• frill,
• fudge,
• gall,
• garble,
• garbling,
• gestalt,
• gild,
• gimmick,
• give pain,
• gloss,
• gloss over,
• gnarl,
• gnaw,
• go adrift,
• go around,
• go astray,
• go round,
• grain,
• grate,
• grind,
• gripe,
• guise,
• gyrate,
• gyre,
• hairpin,
• harrow,
• helix,
• hemangioma,
• hickey,
• hurt,
• idiosyncrasy,
• image,
• imago,
• imbalance,
• impression,
• incident,
• inclination,
• incongruity,
• inconsistency,
• indirection,
• individualism,
• infect,
• inflame,
• inflict pain,
• influence,
• insane,
• interknit,
• interlace,
• interpretation,
• intertie,
• intertissue,
• intertwine,
• intertwist,
• interweave,
• intort,
• involute,
• irregularity,
• irritate,
• jaundice,
• jaundiced eye,
• keloid,
• kidney,
• kill by inches,
• kink,
• knit,
• knot,
• lace,
• lacerate,
• lagniappe,
• leaning,
• lentigo,
• liability,
• ligament,
• ligation,
• ligature,
• light,
• likeness,
• liking,
• line,
• lineaments,
• local color,
• look,
• loom,
• loop,
• lopsidedness,
• lurch,
• mad,
• make,
• makeup,
• manner,
• mar,
• martyr,
• martyrize,
• mask,
• mat,
• meander,
• mental set,
• mettle,
• milium,
• mind,
• mind-set,
• miscite,
• miscolor,
• misconstruction,
• misconstrue,
• misinterpret,
• misinterpretation,
• misquotation,
• misquote,
• misreport,
• misrepresent,
• misrepresentation,
• misstate,
• misstatement,
• misteach,
• mistranslate,
• mistranslation,
• misunderstand,
• misunderstanding,
• misuse,
• mold,
• mole,
• mood,
• motif,
• movement,
• mythos,
• nature,
• navy,
• navy plug,
• needle scar,
• net,
• nevus,
• nip,
• noose,
• nuts,
• nutty,
• oblique,
• obliquity,
• oddity,
• one-sidedness,
• ornament,
• overdraw,
• overstate,
• padding,
• pain,
• parody,
• partialism,
• partiality,
• partisanship,
• peculiarity,
• penchant,
• pererrate,
• pererration,
• peripeteia,
• persuade,
• perversion,
• pervert,
• phase,
• phasis,
• pierce,
• pigtail,
• pimple,
• pinch,
• pirouette,
• pit,
• pivot,
• plait,
• plan,
• pleach,
• plot,
• pock,
• pockmark,
• poison,
• pollute,
• port-wine mark,
• port-wine stain,
• preconception,
• predilection,
• predisposition,
• preference,
• prejudgment,
• prejudice,
• prejudice against,
• prejudice the issue,
• premium,
• prepossess,
• prepossession,
• pressure,
• prick,
• probability,
• proclivity,
• prolong the agony,
• proneness,
• propensity,
• prostitute,
• pull,
• pustule,
• put to torture,
• queue,
• quid,
• quirk,
• rack,
• raddle,
• ramble,
• rambling,
• rankle,
• rasp,
• rattail,
• ravage,
• ravish,
• readiness,
• recognition,
• reference,
• refract,
• regard,
• respect,
• revolve,
• rick,
• rift,
• ringlet,
• rising action,
• roll,
• rope,
• rotate,
• round,
• round the bend,
• rove,
• rub,
• scab,
• scallop,
• scar,
• scarify,
• scatter,
• scheme,
• scratch,
• screw,
• scroll,
• sebaceous cyst,
• secondary plot,
• seeming,
• semblance,
• sensitivity to,
• serpentine,
• set,
• shape,
• sheer,
• shift,
• shifting,
• shifting course,
• shifting path,
• side,
• simulacrum,
• skew,
• slant,
• slink,
• slue,
• snake,
• soft spot,
• something extra,
• spin,
• spiral,
• splice,
• split,
• sprain,
• spring,
• spun yarn,
• squirm,
• stab,
• stamp,
• sting,
• story,
• straggle,
• strain,
• strawberry mark,
• stray,
• straying,
• streak,
• string,
• stripe,
• structure,
• stuffing,
• sty,
• style,
• subject,
• subplot,
• superaddition,
• susceptibility,
• sway,
• sweep,
• swerve,
• swerving,
• swing,
• swinging,
• swirl,
• switch,
• swivel,
• tack,
• tail,
• taint,
• temper,
• temperament,
• tendency,
• tendon,
• tendril,
• thematic development,
• theme,
• thong,
• tissue,
• titivate,
• tobacco juice,
• tone,
• topic,
• topknot,
• torment,
• torsion,
• tortuosity,
• torture,
• total effect,
• track,
• travesty,
• treatment,
• trick,
• trick out,
• trimming,
• tropism,
• turn,
• turn a pirouette,
• turn around,
• turn awry,
• turn of mind,
• turn round,
• turning,
• tweak,
• twill,
• twine,
• twirl,
• twist and turn,
• type,
• ulcerate,
• understanding,
• understate,
• undetachment,
• undispassionateness,
• unsymmetry,
• variation,
• varnish,
• veer,
• verruca,
• version,
• vesicle,
• view,
• viewpoint,
• violate,
• vitiate,
• volute,
• volution,
• vortex,
• vulgarize,
• wale,
• wamble,
• wander,
• wandering,
• warp,
• wart,
• wattle,
• weakness,
• weal,
• weave,
• web,
• welt,
• wen,
• wheel,
• whirl,
• whitehead,
• whitewash,
• whorl,
• wiggle,
• willingness,
• wind,
• wire,
• wise,
• worm,
• wound,
• wreathe,
• wrench,
• wrest,
• wriggle,
• wring,
• wrinkle,
• writhe,
• yarn,
• yaw,
• zigzag