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say it: TWI-sting
twisting is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean". It is pronounced /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/ — TWI-sting. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
marked by repeated turns and bends
“a tortuous road up the mountain”
“winding roads are full of surprises”
“had to steer the car down a twisty track”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for twisting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.