Twisting

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Winding

Synonyms Winding, curving, serpentine, crooked, sinuous, curling, curvy, jagged, crazy, coiled, swirling, looping, indirect, spiralling, zigzagging, wandering, rambling, irregular, twisted, curved, bending, tortuous, curled, devious, windy, coiling, spiral, spiraling, circling, zigzag, uneven, roundabout, circuitous, corkscrew, and meandering.

Twist

Synonyms Twist, wrenching, wringing, wresting, extraction, dislocation, draw, tug, wrench, pull, yank, displacement, and draft.

Distorting

Synonyms Distorting, slanting, complicating, bending, misstating, misinterpreting, cooking, coloring, censoring, mistaking, disguising, dissembling, whitewashing, lying, mystifying, belying, prevaricating, equivocating, bowdlerizing, paltering, misrepresenting, perverting, obscuring, falsifying, warping, garbling, fudging, confusing, misrelating, masking, camouflaging, misdescribing, mistranslating, veiling, misspeaking, glossing (over), mixing (up), confounding, and fibbing.

Winding

Synonyms Winding, curling, swirling, spiraling, spiralling, weaving, turning, bending, looping, arcing, swerving, intertwining, crooking, wheeling, meandering, interlacing, enlacing, coiling, curving, circling, twining, entwining, sweeping, corkscrewing, arching, whirling, veering, encircling, bowing, hooking, zigzagging, bulging, and lacing.

Rotating

Synonyms Rotating, twirling, spinning, pivoting, whirling, swivelling, wheeling, screwing, unscrewing, reeling, circulating, turning, swinging, swirling, rolling, swiveling, revolving, winding, coiling, cranking, and twiddling.

Pulling

Synonyms Pulling, yanking, wrenching, wringing, prying, extracting, tweaking, drawing, shifting, displacing, disturbing, transferring, tugging, plucking, jerking, removing, wresting, lugging, dredging (up), dislocating, levering, transposing, jimmying, and budging.

Tossing

Synonyms Tossing, fidgeting, jerking, wiggling, trembling, shivering, jiggling, quivering, fluttering, shuddering, flitting, pacing, twitching, squirming, fiddling, writhing, shaking, jigging, wriggling, threshing, squiggling, thrashing, quaking, and twittering.

Weaving

Synonyms Weaving, intertwining, plying, writhing, blending, interlacing, intertwisting, plaiting, inweaving, platting, pleaching, braiding, mixing, entwining, implicating, interweaving, wreathing, enlacing, lacing, linking, fusing, and joining.

Example Sentences

The river kept twisting through the valley.

She was twisting her hair while thinking.

He came home with a twisting pain in his ankle.

Twisting the knob will open the door.

The twisting road led up the mountain.

They were twisting wires to fix the lamp.

The dancer performed a twisting motion.

He kept twisting the story to hide the truth.

A twisting breeze moved the leaves.

Twisting metal bars takes great strength.