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to warp

to warp

26 4.9
To bend out of shape when heated or wet
  • verb
  • /wɔrp/
translation icon : deformar
  • The intense heat from the fire caused the wooden chair to warp and lose its original shape.
  • a warped disc

What a mass does is it warps the space-time around it.

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Examples

  • If it rains, I'm afraid it's going to warp.

    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

  • What a mass does is it warps the space-time around it.

    The Royal Institution

  • So the air does not go through the side and warp the plastic when it's building.

    Adam Savage’s Tested

  • Enough heat will get through that the metal warps, and then The thing is not flat anymore.

  • Floor is a little warped.

    Home Run (2013)

  • Then I'll fully cover inside of this box with silicon to make sure the wood doesn't warp or damage with water.

  • The very air around him had begun to warp from the intense heat that poured off his body.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The paper will warp.

    Carnage (2011)

  • The floor is wet and mildewed, the doors warped and slimy.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The glass in all the panes has flowed down, warped, and bubbled at the sills.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

to bend
vsto warp
268 1.0

To make something curved instead of straight

is a bending or twisting caused by heat, damp, pressure, or stress
to distort
vsto warp
59 4.3

To change the shape of something so it is no longer normal

is a physical bending or twisting caused by heat, damp, or stress
to deform
vsto warp
59 4.8

To change a thing's normal shape so it becomes bent or twisted

is specifically caused by heat, damp, pressure, or stress
to buckle
vsto warp
46 4.1

To bend and become damaged under strong pressure or heat

bends or twists out of shape without necessarily collapsing
to contort
vsto warp
17 7.5

To twist a body or object into a strange shape

is a bending or twisting due to heat or stress without violence

Antonyms

to straighten
114 2.5

Make something straight and in the right position

Phrasal Verbs

to warp time
1 9.9

Make time feel faster, slower or strange

Compounds

low-warp loom
  • Specialized
9.3

A hand frame for weaving tapestry with the long threads set horizontally

high-warp loom
  • Specialized
9.9

A hand tool for weaving where the threads hang up and down to make pictures or designs on cloth

How Warped

to mangle
19 7.2
to deform
59 4.8
to warp
26 4.9
to bend
268 1.0

Surface Forms

warp infinitive
warped past
warped past participle
warping present participle
warps third person singular

Etymology

Warp comes from an old English word weorpan meaning 'to throw' or 'to turn'. Imagine heat or pressure 'throwing' a board out of shape — that's why to warp is to bend or twist something out of shape.