单词 | to twist up |
释义 | > as lemmasto twist up a. To wring out of place or shape, or so as to change the shape; esp. to force (a limb, etc.) round so as to sprain it; to wrench. to twist up, to screw up into a rounded form. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > affect with disorder of joints [verb (transitive)] > dislocate unjointa1393 twist?1515 dislocate1608 dislock1609 luxate1623 to put out1640 lux1708 slip1728 to throw out1885 pop1914 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > make complicated [verb (transitive)] entrike?c1425 envolde1451 involve1533 perplex1547 enfold1605 daedalizea1618 fasel1636 interpuzzle1650 puzzle1652 ravel1656 intriguea1677 complicate1832 to twist up1864 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.vv Imagy. At tyburne..Some take a fall that maketh theyr neck lame. Frewyll. Ye but can they go no more? Imagy. Oh no man the wrest is twyste so sore. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 205 The Doctor..fairly twisted his wrists almost to the Breaking thereof. c1803 C. K. Sharpe New Oxf. Guide ii I twisted my ancle—foment it with grease. 1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 177 This mirror is so twisted with convexities. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. xxi. 249 Twisting the neck of a skoray, or young kittiwake. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 194 [He] seized him [sc. Tom] and twisted his arm. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 46 It seemed to twist itself into some likeness of boughs. < as lemmas |
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