Bent or twisted out of shape, either physically (like wood) or mentally (like someone's thinking).
From Old English 'weorpan' meaning to throw or twist; the word originally meant to throw, then evolved to describe the result of throwing something that twists and bends.
The word 'warped' jumped from physical distortion to psychological distortion—when we say someone has a 'warped sense of humor,' we're using medieval physics language to describe the mind!
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