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warp

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of warp

an immaterial thing upon which something else rests
  • An unshakable belief in the essential goodness of humankind is the warp of his philosophy.
Synonyms of warp

base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp and woof
Words Related to warp

anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, support

assumption, justification, premise (also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrant

backbone, center, core, cornerstone, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, keystone, nucleus, seat

essence, quintessence, soul, touchstone

warp

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of warp

1 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
  • The faulty English translation really warps the meaning of the original Russian text.
Synonyms of warp

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist
Words Related to warp

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash

bowdlerize, censor

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)

mystify, obscure

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
Near Antonyms of warp

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

decipher
2 to lower in character, dignity, or quality
  • claims that violent movies warp the values of viewers
Synonyms of warp

abase, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, vitiate
Words Related to warp

befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weaken

descend

disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take down

blemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreck

depreciate, downgrade
Near Antonyms of warp

dignify, exalt, honor

ameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect

clarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restore

respect
Antonyms of warp

elevate, ennoble, uplift
3 to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
  • Freezing warped the plastic, and now the cover won't fit.
Synonyms of warp

contort, deform, distort, misshape, screw, squinch, torture
Words Related to warp

deface, disfigure

wrench, wrest, wring

coil, curl, loop, spiral, twine, wind, wreathe
Near Antonyms of warp

straighten, unbend, uncurl

Synonym Discussion of warp

deform, distort, contort, warp means to mar or spoil by or as if by twisting. deform may imply a change of shape through stress, injury, or accident of growth.
    • a face deformed by hatred
distort and contort both imply a wrenching from the natural or normal, but contort suggests a more involved twisting and a more grotesque and painful result.
    • the odd camera angle distorts the figure
    • disease had contorted her body
warp indicates an uneven shrinking that bends or twists out of a flat plane.
    • warped floorboards

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