Synonyms of the word

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

braid

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
• v. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
• v. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
• v. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
• n. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
• n. A fancy; freak; caprice.
• adj. (obsolete) deceitful.

coif

• n. A hairdo.
• n. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until XVIII century; after that worn…
• n. An item of chain mail headgear.
• n. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
• v. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.

coiffure

• n. hairstyle.
• v. (transitive) to style or arrange hair.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

convolute

• v. (transitive) To make unnecessarily complex.
• v. (transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
• adj. (botany, of a leaf) coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect…

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

crook

• n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
• n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
• n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
• n. (obsolete) A gibbet.
• n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting…
• n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
• n. A bishop's staff of office.
• n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
• n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
• n. A pothook.
• n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
• v. (transitive) To bend.
• v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

current

• n. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
• n. (electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
• n. A tendency or a course of events.
• adj. Existing or occurring at the moment.
• adj. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
• adj. (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.

curve

• adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
• n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
• n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
• n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
• n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
• n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
• n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
• v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
• v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
• v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
• v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

eddy

• n. A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
• n. A circular current; a whirlpool.
• v. (intransitive) To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

flex

• n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
• n. (countable) The act of flexing.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
• v. To bend something.
• v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
• v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
• v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

flexure

• n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
• n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
• n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
• n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
• n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

gimmick

• n. A trick or device used to attain some end.
• n. A clever ploy or strategy.
• n. (electronics) A gimmick capacitor.
• v. To rig or set up with a trick or device.

hairdo

• n. A hairstyle.
• n. A haircut.

hairstyle

• n. The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

interpretation

• n. (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
• n. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
• n. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
• n. (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• n. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results…
• n. (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in…
• n. (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional…

kink

• v. To laugh loudly.
• v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
• n. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a…
• n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
• n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
• n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
• n. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation.
• v. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

maneuver

• n. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
• n. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
• n. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

manoeuvre

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
• v. (transitive) British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling…

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

plait

• n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
• n. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
• v. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid;.

plication

• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together…

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

rick

• n. A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
• n. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four…
• v. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
• v. slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.
• n. (military, pejorative and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

rotation

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
• n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
• n. A regular variation in a sequence.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
• n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
• n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
• n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

sophisticate

• n. A worldly-wise person.
• v. To make less natural or innocent.
• v. To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
• v. To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
• v. To make more complex or refined.
• adj. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

spin

• v. (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another…
• v. (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
• v. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable…
• v. (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
• v. (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
• v. (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar.
• v. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent…
• v. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against…
• v. To move swiftly.
• v. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
• v. To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
• v. (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
• n. Circular motion.
• n. (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic…
• n. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
• n. (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
• n. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning…
• n. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
• n. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
• n. A single play of a record by a radio station.
• n. (dated) Unmarried woman, spinster.

sprain

• n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining.
• v. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain,…

squirm

• v. To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.
• v. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
• v. To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
• v. (figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
• n. A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.

tress

• n. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
• n. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
• v. To braid or knot hair.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

twirl

• n. A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
• v. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

whirl

• v. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
• v. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
• v. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
• n. An act of whirling.
• n. Something that whirls.
• n. A confused tumult.
• n. A rapid series of events.
• n. Dizziness or giddiness.
• n. (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

winding

• v. present participle of wind.
• n. something wound around something else.
• n. the manner in which something is wound.
• n. one complete turn of something wound.
• n. (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
• adj. twisting, turning or sinuous.
• adj. spiral or helical.
• v. present participle of wind.
• n. the act or process of winding (turning around).

worm

• n. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
• n. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them,…
• n. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
• n. (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or…
• n. A contemptible or devious being.
• n. (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
• n. (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
• n. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
• n. (obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
• n. (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
• n. (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
• v. (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
• v. (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
• v. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
• v. (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
• v. (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking…
• v. (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

wrench

• n. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
• n. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
• n. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
• n. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
• n. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
• n. (obsolete) A screw.
• n. A distorting change from the original meaning.
• n. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes;…
• n. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
• n. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
• n. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of…
• n. (obsolete) means; contrivance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
• v. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
• v. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
• v. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
• v. (transitive) To rack with pain.
• v. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
• v. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.

wrestle

• n. A wrestling bout.
• n. A struggle.
• v. (intransitive) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise…
• v. (intransitive) To struggle or strive.
• v. (transitive) To take part in a wrestling match with someone.
• v. (transitive) To move or lift something with difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it.
• v. (transitive) To fight.

wrick

• v. To twist; turn.
• v. To wrench; strain.
• n. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back.

wriggle

• v. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
• v. (transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.
• n. A wriggling movement.

writhe

• v. (transitive) To twist, to wring (something).
• v. (transitive) To contort (a part of the body).
• v. (intransitive) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
• n. (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.