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screw

verb as in twist in

Strongest match

verb as in twist, contort

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"A frame was put into his lower jaw and we were turning these screws to try and artificially pull it forwards," Kate said.

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"In medieval iron chairs, these fittings would have been iron, they would have been hinged, and there would have been screws on them to increase and decrease the pressure on arms as they're pushed down."

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When a robot screws up, Amazon pushes a software patch at 3 a.m. and the million-plus fleet gets smarter overnight.

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Three times Robertson's New Zealand met Steve Borthwick's England last year, and three times England were ahead after an hour only for the All Blacks to turn the screw in the final quarter.

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She battles a rapey demon by calling forth the personality of a previous, angrier Black woman to screw it roughly enough to scare it into submission.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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