warp

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to bend or twist out of shape, or to distort the mind or judgment

   The damp had warped the wooden door so it no longer closed.

Simplified etymology

Warp comes from a Germanic source with the basic sense “throw” or “twist.” Early verbal meanings included “throw,” “fling open,” and “strike with a missile,” while “bend” appeared in late Middle English; the noun began as a weaving term for the threads running back and forth.

From Old English weorpan ('to throw, cast'), from Proto-Germanic *werpaną; the senses of twisting and distortion developed later in English, alongside the weaving term for lengthwise threads.

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