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1. twine, entwine, weave, lace, knit, splice; plait, pleach, braid; intertwine, interwind, interweave, interlace.

2. circle, encircle, surround, wrap, enwrap, wreathe.

3. sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, throw out of joint.

4. contort, distort, screw, screw up, make a face, grimace; pout, stick out one's lower lip, Fr. faire la moue.

5. pervert, warp, garble, Fig. mutilate, Fig. butcher, Scot. thraw; bias, slant, color, varnish, gild; whitewash, gloss, gloss over, Inf. fudge; misconstrue, mis-construct, misinterpret, mistranslate, misrender, mis-report, miscite; misquote, misstate, lie, miscolor, misrepresent, falsify.

6. curl, coil, spiral, convolute, twirl, whirl, whorl.

7. meander, snake, worm, twist and turn, turn, wind, zigzag; curve, swerve, veer, deviate, slue.

8. writhe, wriggle, wiggle, squirm, Sl. have ants in one's pants.

9. rotate, revolve, spin, Archaic. trundle; wheel, swivel, pivot, pirouette, turn on one's heel; gyrate, reel, circumvolve, circumrotate; (all of the hips) bump, grind, bump and grind.

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10. curve, bow, bend, turn, bias, warp, veer, swerve, slue, skew; hook, crook, angle, dogleg, hairpin turn, Sl. dead man's turn; meander, zigzag, Chiefly Scot. wimple.

11. twine, cord, cable, rope, string, wire, yarn; plait, braid.

12. perversion, distortion; misconstruction, misinterpretation, mistranslation, misquotation, miscitation, misstatement; miscoloration, misrepresentation, falsification, subreption; eisegesis.

13. eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, mannerism, quirk, hobby-horse; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity; irregularity, incongruity, variation, abnormality, difference, variance, inconsistency; quip, crotchet, maggot, whim, caprice, flight of fancy.

14. kink, crick, hitch, pinch, tweak, stab, stitch, stitch in the side, Inf. charley horse.