Improper treatment or use of a word or text; misinterpretation; misapplication; alteration of meaning or intention. Also: an instance of this.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > instance of (14) violence1546 Improper treatment or use of a word or text; misinterpretation; misapplication; alteration of meaning or intention. Also: an instance of this. wresting1551 Perversion, distortion, or deflection of the meaning, interpretation, or application; misinterpretation; an instance of this. wreathing1556 figurative. The action or an act of twisting the meaning of something. Cf. wreathe, v. 2. Obsolete. strain1579 A strained construction or interpretation. wrest1581 The action of wresting, forcing, or straining the meaning or purport of words, etc.; an instance of this. Obsolete. mis-sense1615 Wrong sense or meaning. by-signification1651 extortion1652 In etymological sense. A wresting of the sense of a word or phrase. corruption1699 A concrete instance of such alteration. wrench1701 Change from the original purport or signification; a strained or wrested meaning; a forced or false interpretation. (Cf. wrest, n.1 3.) by-sense1782 corruptibility1847 The quality of being corruptible. torturing1855 The action of torture, v.; infliction of torture; tormenting; figurative wresting, perversion. twist1862 figurative. A wresting, perversion, distortion. |
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