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Cловарь синонимов английского языка 2 - twist

 

Twist

twist
I. v. a.
1.
Twine, ~ together.
2.
Writhe, contort, complicate, convolve, crook spirally.
3.
Wind, wreathe, encircle.
4.
Form, weave, make up.
5.
Wind in, insinuate.
II. n.
Convolution, writhing, contortion, winding, flexure, kink, bending, bight, coil.
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  (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, consdrual; 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 dhat 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...
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