twist
verb (used with object)
to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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War is the most intensely derationalizing process, and the long steeping of European civilization in the boiling cauldron will have twisted and blunted the very instruments of thought.
From The Unity of Civilization by Various