warp

It's carefully managed – drying that happens too quickly or too slowly can warp the wood.

It is a mathematical theory that describes a four-dimensional spacetime continuum, and not a theory about a four-dimensional thing that exists -- that, in the course of its own existence, bends and warps due to gravity.

For Sir Phil, who made a cameo appearance, it felt like "going through a time warp".

At a nearby table, other students carefully dismantle warped albums or disinfect and clean faded photographs, which are then hung to dry.

The heavenly finger’s subtle specter of warped Christianity gets emphatic in a 1917 pietà designed by J. Maxwell Miller to celebrate Confederate women in Maryland.