Synonyms of the word twisting


TWISTINGCROOKED - DISTORTION - FALSIFICATION - MOVING - OVERREFINEMENT - ROTATION - SPIN - SQUIRMING - STRAINING - TORTUOUS - TORTURE - TWIRL - TWIST - TWISTY - VOLUMINOUS - WHIRL - WIGGLING - WIGGLY - WINDING - WRIGGLING - WRIGGLY - WRITHING

twisting

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

crooked

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

distortion

  • n. An act of distorting.
  • n. A result of distorting.
  • n. A misrepresentation of the truth.
  • n. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
  • n. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
  • n. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

falsification

  • n. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something…
  • n. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
  • n. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

moving

  • adj. (not comparable) That moves or move.
  • adj. That causes someone to feel emotion.
  • v. present participle of move.
  • n. (uncountable) The relocation of goods.
  • n. (countable) A causing of a movement.

overrefinement

  • n. Excessive refinement.

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.

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.

squirming

  • v. present participle of squirm.
  • n. The motion of something that squirms.

straining

  • v. present participle of strain.
  • n. The act by which one strains.

tortuous

  • adj. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  • adj. (obsolete) injurious; tortious.
  • adj. (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most…

torture

  • n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
  • n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
  • n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
  • v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

twirl

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

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.

twisty

  • adj. that twists.
  • adj. curly.
  • n. Something that is twisty, such as a road.
  • n. A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion.

voluminous

  • adj. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  • adj. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
  • adj. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
  • adj. Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse.

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.

wiggling

  • v. present participle of wiggle.
  • n. The motion of something that wiggles.

wiggly

  • adj. Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.
  • adj. (of a line) Made up of many curves.

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).

wriggling

  • v. present participle of wriggle.
  • n. The act of one who wriggles.

wriggly

  • adj. (informal) That wriggles.

writhing

  • adj. Bended in twisting struggle.
  • v. present participle of writhe.
  • n. A twisting struggle.

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