warpverb
uk/wɔːp/us/wɔːrp/warp verb (BEND)
[ I or T ] If wood warps, or if water or heat warps it, it becomes damaged by bending or twisting:
After being left in the damp garage, the wooden frame had warped.
The heat had warped the boards.
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Bending, twisting and curving
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- contort
- convoluted
- crook
- flexure
- fluted
- intertwine
- interweave
- knot
- matted
- meander
- meandering
- twiddly
- twine
- twisted
- twisty
- warped
- wring
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warp verb (STRANGE)
[ T ] to make a person or their behaviour strange, in an unpleasant or harmful way:
Prison warps people. Had it warped Kelley enough that he would kill a stranger?
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Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inroad
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- reverberate
- thing
- tilt the balance/scales idiom
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- work against/for sb
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warpnoun
uk/wɔːp/us/wɔːrp/the warp [ S ] specialized
the threads that go along the length of a piece of cloth or a loom (= a special frame for making cloth)
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the weft
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Textiles: general words
- baize
- bias
- bolt
- brocade
- cloth
- cutpiece
- denier 1
- drapery
- filament
- gauze
- lint
- nap
- padding
- pile
- strand
- swatch
- textile
- the weft
- upholstery
- wadding
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