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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TWIST'ED, pp. Formed by winding threads or strands round each other.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1890 mentally or emotionally unsound or disturbed ; sick

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Twist Twist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Twisting.] [OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made of two (twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See Twice, Two.] 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope. 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. 3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. ``Longing to twist bays with that ivy.'' --Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet. 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. 6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. --Shak. 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak. 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Twisted Twist"ed, a. Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person as twisted, you dislike them because you think they are strange in an unpleasant way. ...a twisted man who shot at the president... ADJ [disapproval]

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Executed, hanged.

Moby Thesaurus

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