warping

The word “warping” has 2 syllables: warp-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈwɔrpɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for warping?

In the thesaurus, “warping” has 114 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for warping along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for warping

  • abasing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belying
  • bending
  • blemishing
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • cankering
  • censoring
  • cheapening
  • coiling
  • coloring
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contorting
  • contortion
  • cooking
  • corrupting
  • curling
  • damaging
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • defacement
  • defacing
  • defiling
  • deformation
  • deforming
  • deformity
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • disfigurement
  • disfiguring
  • disgracing
  • disguising
  • dishonoring
  • dissembling
  • distorting
  • distortion
  • downgrading
  • equivocating
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • flawing
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • lessening
  • looping
  • lying
  • malformation
  • marring
  • masking
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misshaping
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • paltering
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • prevaricating
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • ruining
  • screwing
  • shaming
  • slanting
  • spiraling
  • spiralling
  • spoiling
  • squinching
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • torturing
  • twining
  • twisting
  • veiling
  • vitiating
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • whitewashing
  • winding
  • wreathing
  • wrecking
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • wringing

Antonyms for warping

  • ameliorating
  • amending
  • bettering
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • deciphering
  • dignifying
  • elevating
  • enhancing
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • exalting
  • explaining
  • honoring
  • illuminating
  • illustrating
  • improving
  • interpreting
  • meliorating
  • perfecting
  • purifying
  • refining
  • respecting
  • restoring
  • spelling out
  • straightening
  • unbending
  • uncurling
  • uplifting

Meanings of warping

  • verb
    1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:.
    2. (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
    3. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
    4. To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
    5. To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
    6. To move:.
    7. (obsolete outside dialectal, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
    8. To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
    9. (very rare) To throw.
  • noun
    1. An action or motion that warps or twists.
    2. The deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area.
    3. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
    4. The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.

Example Sentences

  • The constant heat caused the wood to start warping.
  • The artist was warping the metal into a unique sculpture.
  • Excessive humidity can lead to warping of furniture over time.
  • The company invested in new technology to prevent the warping of glass in production.
  • The warping of the frame made it impossible to hang the picture straight.

On this page you'll find 144 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to warping, such as: abasing, ameliorating, amending, bastardizing, befouling, begriming, belying.

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Related Words

abasing

  • abashing
  • affronting
  • bad-mouthing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • blemishing
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • crying down
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirtying
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discrediting
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • downgrading
  • embarrassing
  • execrating
  • fazing
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • fouling
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • insulting
  • lessening
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lowering
  • maligning
  • marring
  • minimizing
  • mortifying
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reprobating
  • ridiculing
  • ruining
  • shaming
  • sinking
  • slandering
  • smirching
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • vitiating
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wrecking
  • writing off

cankering

  • abasing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • blemishing
  • cheapening
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • damaging
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • defacing
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • downgrading
  • flawing
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • lessening
  • marring
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • ruining
  • shaming
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • vitiating
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wrecking

debasing

  • X-rated
  • abasement
  • abashing
  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • adult
  • affronting
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • awkward
  • backbiting
  • bad name
  • bad odor
  • bad-mouthing
  • barbaric
  • baseness
  • bastardizing
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedroom
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • beneath one
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blemishing
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • brazen
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • coarse
  • comedown
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contempt
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • contumely
  • corrupt
  • corrupting
  • corruption
  • criminal
  • criticizing
  • crude
  • crying down
  • culpability
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasement
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degradation
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denigrating
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciating
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • descending
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • difficult
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirty
  • dirtying
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disbarment
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discredit
  • discrediting
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonor
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • disrepute
  • disrespect
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dust
  • earthy
  • egregious
  • embarrassing
  • erotic
  • erotical
  • execrating
  • false
  • fazing
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flagrant
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • foul
  • fouling
  • gross
  • hard-core
  • harming
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • humiliation
  • hurting
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • immodest
  • impairing
  • impossible
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • inexpedient
  • infamous
  • infamy
  • infra indignitatem
  • ingloriousness
  • inhuman
  • iniquitous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • intolerable
  • invective
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • kinky
  • lascivious
  • lessening
  • lewd
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • loss of honor
  • lowering
  • lustful
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • maligning
  • marring
  • mature
  • meanness
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notorious
  • obloquy
  • obscene
  • odious
  • odium
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • opprobrium
  • pejorative
  • perverted
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pollution
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • prostitution
  • prurient
  • put down
  • putting down
  • racy
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reviling
  • ribald
  • ridiculing
  • rude
  • ruining
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalous
  • scorn
  • scurrilous
  • sexy
  • shadow
  • shame
  • shameless
  • shaming
  • shocking
  • sinful
  • sinking
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slight
  • slighting
  • slur
  • smirch
  • smirching
  • smutty
  • soft-core
  • spiteful
  • spoiling
  • spot
  • stain
  • staining
  • stigma
  • subverting
  • suggestive
  • taint
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnish
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • traducing
  • troublesome
  • truculent
  • turpitude
  • unbearable
  • unbecoming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncomplimentary
  • ungodly
  • unpleasant
  • unprintable
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • untrue
  • unwieldy
  • unworthy of one
  • venality
  • vile
  • vilifying
  • villainous
  • violent
  • vitiating
  • vitriolic
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wrecking
  • writing off

debauching

  • abasing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • blemishing
  • cankering
  • cheapening
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • damaging
  • debasing
  • defacing
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • downgrading
  • flawing
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • lessening
  • marring
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • ruining
  • shaming
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • vitiating
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wrecking

falsifying

  • belying
  • bending
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • coloring
  • committing perjury
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • cooking
  • debating
  • debunking
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discussing
  • disguising
  • disproving
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distorting
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • doubting
  • equivocating
  • false
  • fibbing
  • forsworn
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • giving the lie to
  • guileful
  • inventing
  • lying
  • masking
  • mendacious
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misleading
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mistrusting
  • mooting
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • overthrowing
  • overturning
  • paltering
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebutting
  • refuting
  • shifty
  • shooting down
  • slanting
  • talking over
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • twisting
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unreliable
  • untruthful
  • veiling
  • warping
  • whitewashing
  • wrong

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