to warp
- verb
- /wɔrp/
- She was careful not to warp the truth during her testimony.
See, but The thing is, it's been so warped by Christians.
- See, but The thing is, it's been so warped by Christians.
- What you're what you look at every day definitely warps your view on things.
- Don't allow their warping of information to warp the way you think.
- You're destroying other cultures and trying to warp or twist them into something.
- Being deceitful, warping the truth, denying reality.
- Their constructs created by wealthy white privilege people who warp things in their own interest.
- And so all of a sudden that got warped and twisted by fame.
- And so his stuff is, it's really fun to read mind warping.
- So their own yardstick for measuring this stuff is completely warped.
- For real though, I do that did when they, when they take reality and they warp it, they do that a lot.
- So when it gets too extreme in either direction is when the story gets wrong, it gets warped.
- I mean, there are all kinds of things that pointed primarily to God that now society has warped and changed and turned it into something else.
Examples
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The trauma of this act warped the minds of the group.
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This is really warped.
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You think you are someone who can warp the structure of reality with your words and get away with it.
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The girl tried to warp my mind.
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But it's out there now for people to mold and warp to their needs.
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Dude, man, your mind is warped.
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Society needs protection from these warped minds.
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This philosophy further warps the minds of our two young scholars.
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Don't allow their warping of information to warp the way you think.
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You know, crime, according to Marx, comes only because people are warped by the possession of private property by others.
Synonyms
To change what someone said to make it mean something different, often to mislead
To change a text by adding words, often to make it false
To change facts so they become false or misleading
Give a false story about someone or something to trick people
To change information so it becomes unfair or wrong
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
Change the meaning or purpose so it becomes wrong
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
To change something to hide the truth
To describe a person or thing unfairly
To change a message so people cannot understand it
To make a story seem better than it really is
To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
Change words or facts to make a person look bad
Change facts on purpose to make something seem better
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Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A hand frame for weaving tapestry with the long threads set horizontally
- Specialized
A hand tool for weaving where the threads hang up and down to make pictures or designs on cloth
How Misleading
Surface Forms
Etymology
Warp meaning 'to change the truth' is a figurative step from the physical idea of bending or twisting; like the word 'twist', to warp facts is to bend their true shape so they no longer look like the original.