warp
verb (used with object)
to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
had warped
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past perfectof warp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Jauregui and Smith said prosecutors had warped and twisted innocent, if sometimes “offensive,” chatter into an insurrectionist plot.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2023
Once charged, several defendants have sought to renounce their ideologies, pointing to mitigating factors in their own lives that they said had warped their judgment and led to a poisoned set of beliefs.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
They added "pervasive childhood trauma" had warped his brain.
From Fox News ● Feb. 21, 2020
This was not something that people from her neighborhood did—“It meant you were crazy”—but she was determined not to subject her daughter to the pathologies that had warped her own childhood.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
None of the three tall windows would open because their frames had warped long ago, and an aroma of warmed dust from the Persian carpet rose to meet the diners as they entered.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
