The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - twist v.

1) plait, braid, weave, entwine, intertwine, twine, interweave, pleach, splice, wreathe, interlace: She twisted together some daisies to make a garland for her hair. 2) distort, warp, contort, pervert, alter, change, slant, bias, colour, falsify, misquote, misstate, garble, miscite, misrepresent, violate; misinterpret, mistranslate, misunderstand, misconstrue: He twisted her words so that she seemed to be saying the opposite of what she intended. 3) wriggle, worm, squirm, writhe, wiggle: The little beggar twisted out of my grasp and ran for his life. 4) wind, snake, meander, turn, zigzag, worm, bend, curve: I lost sight of the stream where it twisted through the undergrowth. 5) wrench, turn, sprain, rick or wrick: I twisted my ankle on a faulty step. 6) twist (one's or someone's) arm. force, coerce, make, persuade, bully, Brit pressurize, US pressure: I didn't want to go, but she twisted my arm. --n. 7) coil, spiral, skew, zigzag, dog-leg, turn, curve, angle, bend, bow, meander: The road is full of twists and turns. 8) interpretation, analysis, understanding, slant, angle, construction, construal; treatment, approach, version, variation: This book puts a new twist on the fall of the Roman Empire. 9) distortion, misinterpretation, contortion, perversion, warping, alteration, change, departure, bias, colouring, falsification, misquotation, misstatement, garbling, misrepresentation; mistranslation, misunderstanding, misconstrual, misconstruction: It was a twist of fate that brought us together again. She gave everything he said such a twist that he scarcely recognized his own ideas. 10) quirk, idiosyncrasy, crotchet, peculiarity, oddity, trick, eccentricity, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity; weakness, flaw, fault, foible, failing: Owing to a twist in his character, he has developed a hatred of women. 11) round the twist. mad, crazy, insane, eccentric, Colloq daft, Brit round the bend, Slang nuts, nutty, bonkers, cuckoo, batty, off (one's) rocker, Brit barmy or balmy: Kevin's gone round the twist if he thinks I am going out with his sister.