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twist
English
- 🔊 turning or twisting around (in place)“with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room”
- 🔊 social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music“they liked to dance the twist”
- 🔊 a jerky pulling movement
- 🔊 an interpretation of a text or action“they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”
- 🔊 a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- 🔊 a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- 🔊 a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments“the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell”
- 🔊 any clever maneuver“he would stoop to any device to win a point”
- 🔊 the act of rotating rapidly“he gave the crank a spin”
- 🔊 the act of winding or twisting“he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind”
- 🔊 an unforeseen development“events suddenly took an awkward turn”
- 🔊 a circular segment of a curve“a bend in the road”
- 🔊 a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- 🔊 twist suddenly so as to sprain“wrench one's ankle”
- 🔊 form into twists“Twist the strips of dough”
- 🔊 practice sophistry“Don't twist my words”
- 🔊 turn in the opposite direction“twist one's head”
- 🔊 form into a spiral shape“The cord is all twisted”
- 🔊 do the twist
- 🔊 twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates“wrench a window off its hinges”
- 🔊 extend in curves and turns“The road winds around the lake”
- 🔊 cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form“bend the rod”
- 🔊 to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)“The prisoner writhed in discomfort”
Spanish
- 🔊 twist twist
- 🔊 retorcer to twist
- 🔊 revirar to twist
- 🔊 torcer to twist
- 🔊 torcido twist, curl
- 🔊 torsión twist, twisting
- 🔊 tirabuzón twist, corkscrew
- 🔊 torcer to twist, to bend
- 🔊 gamberrada twist, turn (unexpected outcome)
- 🔊 desenfocar to twist, to distort (to change the truth or meaning of words)
- 🔊 recodo twist, turn, bend, elbow (notable curve of a street river etc.)