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tangle
verb. knot, complicate
  • catch
  • coil
  • confuse
  • derange
  • discompose
  • disorganize
  • drag into
  • embroil
  • enmesh
  • ensnare
  • entangle
  • entrap
  • foul up
  • hamper
  • implicate
  • interlace
  • interlock
  • intertwist
  • interweave
  • involve
  • jam
  • kink
  • make a party to
  • mat
  • mesh
  • mess up
  • mix up
  • muck up
  • obstruct
  • perplex
  • ravel
  • snarl
  • tie up
  • trap
  • twist
  • unbalance
  • upset

twist
noun. sudden development; oddity
  • aberration
  • bent
  • change
  • characteristic
  • confusion
  • crotchet
  • eccentricity
  • entanglement
  • foible
  • idiosyncrasy
  • kink
  • knot
  • mess
  • mix-up
  • peculiarity
  • proclivity
  • quirk
  • revelation
  • screw-up
  • slant
  • snarl
  • surprise
  • tangle
  • trait
  • turn
  • variation

ripple mark
noun. series of tiny ridges
  • corrugation
  • kink
  • rugosity

quirkiness
noun. eccentricity
  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • foible
  • freakishness
  • hereticism
  • idiocrasy
  • idiosyncrasy
  • irregularity
  • kink
  • nonconformity
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • queerness
  • quirk
  • singularity
  • strangeness
  • unconventionality
  • unorthodoxness
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness

singularity
noun. eccentricity
  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • foible
  • freakishness
  • hereticism
  • idiocrasy
  • idiosyncrasy
  • irregularity
  • kink
  • nonconformity
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • queerness
  • quirk
  • quirkiness
  • strangeness
  • unconventionality
  • unorthodoxness
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness
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Word Origin & History

kink 1670s, a nautical term, from Du. kink "twist in a rope" (also found in French and Swedish), probably related to O.N. kika "to bend at the knee" (see kick). Figurative sense of "odd notion, mental twist" first recorded in Amer.Eng., 1803, in writings of Thomas Jefferson.

Example Sentences for kink

But that first kink seems to have been getting worse kinked ever since.

He kissed his fingers, and waved them in the direction of Kink's Hotel.

There was a kink in the halyards of the main-top gallant-sail, so that it would not run through the block.

In this way the tube will not kink or lose its shape while being wound.

Somehow or another that fight took the kink out of my back for from that time on it began to get well.

She looked at Miss Avery intently, trying to understand the kink in her brain.

Mademoiselle looked at Madame with a kink of her pretty brows.

There was a kink in my leader about one inch above the hook.

I wished I knew for it subtracted the joy from the day as surely as dampness takes the kink out of unnatural curls.

Nothing but the sword of old Xiphius gladius could have made that kink!

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