Word Meanings - RECURVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECURVATION)

• detortion
• Wresting
• violation
• twisting
• distortion
• perversion
• decurvity
• devexity
• recurvation

Related words: (words related to RECURVATION)

• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• DETORTION
  The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• TWIST
  twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
• WRESTER
  One who wrests.
• DISTORTION
  An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
• RECURVATION
  The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• WRESTLING
  Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules.
• DEVEXITY
  A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. Davies
• WREST
  1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• WRESTLER
  One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
• VIOLATION
  The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• SAW-WREST
  See SAW-SET
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
• OUTWREST
  To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. Spenser.
• TURNWREST
  Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. designating a kind of hillside plow. Knight.
• OVERWREST
  To wrest or force from the natural or proper position. Shak.
• OVERWRESTLE
  To subdue by wrestling. Spenser.