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Grammar : Verb
Spell : wawrp
Phonetic Transcription : wɔrp



Definition of warped

Origin :
  • "threads running lengthwise in a fabric," Old English wearp-, from Proto-Germanic *warpo- (cf. Middle Low German warp, Old High German warf "warp," Old Norse varp "cast of a net"), from root *werp- (see warp (v.)). The warp of fabric is that across which the woof is "thrown." Applied in 20c. astrophysics to the "fabric" of space-time, popularized in noun phrase warp speed by 1960s TV series "Star Trek."
  • verb bend, distort
Example sentences :
  • The rudder may also be curved or warped in similar manner by lever action.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • The schooner might well have been warped to a dock in some port of the dead.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • He wasn't going to be taken in by any warped sense of humor.
  • Extract from : « The Second Voice » by Mann Rubin
  • If the pressing hand has a twisting motion, the book will be warped.
  • Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear
  • Your money had, in a way, warped your estimate of people and things.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The sudden shock of the news had robbed me of some of my wit, and had warped my reasoning.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • His moral sense is not so much dulled by experience as warped by education.
  • Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
  • Warped and twisted all his outlook as he brooded on it through the years.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • And our histories of the early Church are too often warped by an unfortunate bias.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • Too many of us starting out on life's journey have a warped ambition.
  • Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

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