Definition of "atwist" []

• Twisted; distorted; awry (adverb)

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• "It was atwist on the “Blair Witch” “Cloverfield” I kind of started to beleive it during the movie … .."
• "The railway bridges over both these streams had been blown up by dynamite: some of the stone piers were shattered, and some of the iron girders hurled all atwist into the watery depths beneath; here and there culverts had similarly been destroyed, and at many a point the very rails had been torn by explosives till they looked like a pair of upturned arms imploring help from heaven."
• "Its nerves are all atwist, its brain does not work properly, its heart is too small."