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Noun twisting has 2 senses

• twisting(n = noun.act) distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean; Array
is a kind of falsification, misrepresentation
Derived form verb twist₉

• twisting(n = noun.act) spin, twirl, twist, whirl - the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"
is a kind of rotary motion, rotation
has particulars: pirouette, birling, logrolling

Adjective twisting has 1 sense

• twisting(s = adj.all) tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding - marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

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THESAURUS

twisting

aberrant, aberrative, abstractionism, abuse of terms, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, braiding, catachresis, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, coloring, contorting, convolution, convolutional, crinkle, crinkling, curving, deformation, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, distortion, eisegesis, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, errant, erratic, error, exaggeration, excursive, expressionism, fabric, false coloring, falsification, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, garbling, gloss, hyperbole, inaccuracy, indirect, injustice, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, knitting, labyrinthine, lacing, litotes, malentendu, malobservation, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, misdrawing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, nonrealism, out-of-the-way, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, plaiting, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slanting, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, squeezing, stray, swerving, texture, tissue, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, torturing, turning, twining, twisty, understatement, undirected, undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, warp and woof, warpage, wave, waving, weave, weaving, web, weftage, whorled, winding, wreathing, wreathlike, wreathy, wrenching, zigzag

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