The force or shock of an attack in war.
The major part of something; the bulk.
The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
A twisting force.
A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
The form given in twisting.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
A small roll of tobacco.
A sprain, especially to the ankle.
A girl, a woman.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
A rotation of the body when diving.
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
To turn a knob etc.
To join together by twining one part around another.
To wind into; to insinuate.
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
To cause to rotate.
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
To coax.
To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).