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warped

verb

Meaning

  • To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:

  • (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.

  • To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.

  • To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).

  • To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).

  • To move:

  • (obsolete outside dialectal, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.

  • To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.

  • (very rare) To throw.

adjective

Meaning

  • Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape

  • Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.

    "a warped sense of humour"