warp
verb (used with object)
to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
has warped
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present perfectof warp (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In the 10 years since the first season of “True Detective” premiered, our definition of prestige television has warped, fractured and smoothed out again, many would say to the medium’s detriment.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2024
The stories represent a fragment of decades of press coverage that Harry says has warped his life and those of his friends and loved ones.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
But there’s another path that’s more complex, more Freudian, about how work in America has warped our senses of time and even our own bodies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
In this effervescent exposé, British zoologist Lucy Cooke documents the “scientific phallocracy” that has warped our perceptions of biological sex in the animal kingdom.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2022
It has destroyed you, for it has warped your soul!”
From The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life by Charles Klein
