0 If wood warps, or if water or heat warps it, it becomes damaged by bending or twisting:
1 to make a person or their behaviour strange, in an unpleasant or harmful way:
2 the threads that go along the length of a piece of cloth or a loom (= a special frame for making cloth)
3 (of a surface or hard material) to bend or twist so that the surface is no longer flat or straight:
4 to cause something or someone to no longer do what is usual or right:
The novel is an appraisal of how totalitarianism can warp a society.
The mutation rate for time warping works similarly.
Their motives will undoubtedly vary from the thrill of managing to access a highly secure system to that of simply obtaining financial gain or personal enhancement or pleasure, however warped.
In this sense, morality actually calls attention to animal-like propensities, and it sometimes even exacerbates or warps them because of desire for the release that their expression promises to produce.
Such ignorance of what has been happening warps the understanding of the public.
If both warps are cut, the whole gear goes and the vessel loses £2,000-worth of equipment.
The production grant system often warps the pattern of agriculture.
Tied aid warps priorities, to the detriment of the poor.
There were warps in every room and every spindle was working, and there was no point in keeping those orders here.
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彎曲, (使)(木材)彎曲,(使)翹曲,(使)變形, 奇怪的…
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