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- (verb): To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- (verb): To join together by twining one part around another.
- (verb): To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (verb): To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- (verb): To wind into; to insinuate.
- (verb): To turn a knob etc.
- (verb): To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (verb): To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- (verb): To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- (verb): (of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- (verb): To cause to rotate.
- (verb): To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- (verb): To coax.
- (verb): In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (adjective): Contorted.
- (adjective): Wound spirally.
- (adjective): Mentally disturbed or unsound.
- (adjective): Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana.
- Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
- The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.