"twist and turn" meaning in English

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      "form": "twists and turns",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "twisting and turning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twisted and turned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twisted and turned",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:",
          "text": "The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "Vardy had a hand in the opening goal. Twisting and turning on the edge of the 18-yard box, the England international was clumsily brought down by Vicente Iborra, wide on the Leicester left.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move one way then the other, or in unpredictable erratic gyrations."
      ],
      "id": "en-twist_and_turn-en-verb-2LHEYV8U",
      "links": [
        [
          "erratic",
          "erratic"
        ],
        [
          "gyration",
          "gyration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To move one way then the other, or in unpredictable erratic gyrations."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jactitate"
        },
        {
          "word": "vertiginate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to move one way then the other",
          "word": "kääntyillä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to move one way then the other",
          "word": "mutkitella"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to move one way then the other",
          "tags": [
            "reflexive"
          ],
          "word": "hin- und herbewegen"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to move one way then the other",
          "word": "korohapehape"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "twist and turn"
}

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    {
      "form": "twists and turns",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "twisting and turning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twisted and turned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "twisted and turned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:",
          "text": "The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "Vardy had a hand in the opening goal. Twisting and turning on the edge of the 18-yard box, the England international was clumsily brought down by Vicente Iborra, wide on the Leicester left.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To move one way then the other, or in unpredictable erratic gyrations."
      ],
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        [
          "erratic",
          "erratic"
        ],
        [
          "gyration",
          "gyration"
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        "(intransitive) To move one way then the other, or in unpredictable erratic gyrations."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "jactitate"
    },
    {
      "word": "vertiginate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to move one way then the other",
      "word": "kääntyillä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to move one way then the other",
      "word": "mutkitella"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to move one way then the other",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "hin- und herbewegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to move one way then the other",
      "word": "korohapehape"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twist and turn"
}