Twisted Common

Twisted has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of twist

"The rope was twisted tightly around the handle before she tied a knot."

In plain English: To twist something means to turn it around so that its shape changes and it becomes bent out of straightness.

"The old branch snapped and twisted in the fierce wind."

Adjective

having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

"many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"

"a perverted translation of the poem"

distorted misrepresented perverted twisted

Contorted.

"The twisted rope lay in a tangled mess on the floor."

Example Sentences

"The old branch snapped and twisted in the fierce wind." verb

"She twisted her ankle while running on the uneven path." verb

"He twisted the cap off the bottle with his fingers." verb

"The wind twisted the branches of the old oak tree." verb

Origin

The sense "intertwined" comes from twist (verb) by the late 15th century. The sense "mentally disturbed, perverted" is probably from twist ("mental peculiarity, perversion", noun), which is attested by 1811.

Rhyming Words

ted sted nted voted muted fated sated cited sited meted noted outed lated usted feted anted acted bited doted bated

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