Twist
1. To wind together (two or more threads, for example) so as to produce a single strand.
2. To wind or coil (vines or rope, for example) about something.
3. To interlock or interlace. Usage: twist flowers in one’s hair.
4. To make (one’s way) in a tortuous manner. Usage : John twisted his way through the tough patch of terrain.
5. To turn so as to face another direction. Usage : John and Mary twisted their heads around at the sound of the doorbell.
6. To impart a spiral or coiling shape to, as by turning the ends in opposite directions. Usage: twisting wire into a loop.
7.
a. To turn or open by turning. Usage : John twisted off the bottle cap.
b. To pull, break, or snap by turning. Usage: Could you tell John to twist off the dead branch?
8. To wrench or sprain. Usage : twist one’s wrist.
9. To alter the normal aspect of; contort: twist one’s mouth into a wry smile.
10. To alter or distort the intended meaning of . Usage: The cross-examiner twisted the words of the witness.
11. To alter or distort the mental, moral, or emotional character of. Usage: The trauma twisted the child’s outlook.
Leave to twist / leave twisting in the wind
To abandon (someone) to a bad situation, often as a recipient of blame.
Usage: If our envoy was so blameless, why had she been left to twist in the wind?
Twist someone’s arm
to persuade or coerce someone
Deform
1. To spoil the natural form of; misshape. Usage : A body that had been deformed by disease.
2. To spoil the beauty or appearance of; disfigure.
Incurvate
To cause to bend into an inward curve.
Usage : The body incurvates a little at the back
Gnarl
1. A protruding knot on a tree.
2. To make knotted; twist.
Usage : The old man’s fists were two great gnarls.
Convolute
Rolled or coiled together in overlapping whorls, as certain leaves, petals, or shells.
Usage : John described it as intermingled, convoluted pair of wires joined together to form a mesh.
Circumvolute
wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail.
Usage : The staircase circumvoluted upwards.
Zig Zag
1.
a. A line or course that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
b. One of a series of such sharp turns.
2. Something, such as a road or design, that exhibits one or a series of sharp turns.
Usage : The river zigzags through the countryside.
The birds flew zigzag across the blue sky.
Contort
To twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape.
Usage : His face was contorted with pain.
His face contorts as he screams out the lyrics.
The interrogator inflicted pain that contorted the suspect’s face.
Incurved
bent into or having an inward curve.
Usage : The mesh is incurved, convoluted, usually conformed by two cells, the apex.
