The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

green and brown.
twist v. 1 plait, braid, weave, entwine, intertwine, twine,
interweave, pleach, splice, wreathe, interlace: She twisted
together some daisies to make a garland for her hair. 2
distort, warp, contort, pervert, alter, change, slant, bias,
colour, falsify, misquote, misstate, garble, miscite,
misrepresent, violate; misinterpret, mistranslate,
misunderstand, misconstrue: He twisted her words so that she
seemed to be saying the opposite of what she intended. 3
wriggle, worm, squirm, writhe, wiggle: The little beggar
twisted out of my grasp and ran for his life. 4 wind, snake,
meander, turn, zigzag, worm, bend, curve: I lost sight of the
stream where it twisted through the undergrowth. 5 wrench,
turn, sprain, rick or wrick: I twisted my ankle on a faulty
step. 6 twist (one's or someone's) arm. force, coerce, make,
persuade, bully, Brit pressurize, US pressure: I didn't want to
go, but she twisted my arm.
--n. 7 coil, spiral, skew, zigzag, dog-leg, turn, curve, angle,
bend, bow, meander: The road is full of twists and turns. 8
interpretation, analysis, understanding, slant, angle,
construction, construal; treatment, approach, version,
variation: This book puts a new twist on the fall of the Roman
Empire. 9 distortion, misinterpretation, contortion,
perversion, warping, alteration, change, departure, bias,
colouring, falsification, misquotation, misstatement, garbling,
misrepresentation; mistranslation, misunderstanding,
misconstrual, misconstruction: It was a twist of fate that
brought us together again. She gave everything he said such a
twist that he scarcely recognized his own ideas. 10 quirk,
idiosyncrasy, crotchet, peculiarity, oddity, trick,
eccentricity, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity;
weakness, flaw, fault, foible, failing: Owing to a twist in his
character, he has developed a hatred of women. 11 round the
twist. mad, crazy, insane, eccentric, Colloq daft, Brit round
the bend, Slang nuts, nutty, bonkers, cuckoo, batty, off (one's)
rocker, Brit barmy or balmy: Kevin's gone round the twist if he
thinks I am going out with his sister.
twister n. 1 cheat, swindler, confidence man or woman, rogue,
scoundrel, swindler, trickster, mountebank, deceiver, fraud,
impostor or imposter, Colloq con man or woman, crook: This