twisting

Verb

twist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)

1. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

   Synonyms:

   torque, convolute

2. To join together by twining one part around another.
   • "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I...1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 15, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   braid, intertwist, lace, betwine, entwist, entwine, interlace, interthread, intertwine, interweave

3. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
   • June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
     twisting it into a serpentine form.
4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
   • longing to twist bays with that ivy1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
5. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
   • Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
6. To turn a knob etc.

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