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Kinking

Kink \Kink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Kinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Kinking.] To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

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kinking

vb. (present participle of kink English)

Usage examples of "kinking".

These filamentary structures are seen clearly in laboratory plasma discharges, solar prominences, and the shimmering draperies of the aurora, kinking and writhing unpredictably under their own internally generated fields, as fusion researchers trying to contain plasmas have learned to their consternation.

The chopper lifted off and the view of the Hollow spread out below them: steeply sloping hillsides of bare trees, kinking creek valleys, and, in another minute, Orrin Hubbell's house and studio, perched above the broad, winding, steel-colored Ohio River.

He began twisting it, kinking and unkinking in an endeavor to break it.

Usually these kinking, barely-shoulders-wide passages got on his nerves.

She looked at his face again, the black line of her brow kinking suddenly, as if she sought some lost memory.