To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.
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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
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To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
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To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
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Distorted; misshapen.
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A twist; a convolution.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
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A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
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Distorted; misshapen.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
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