| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | لوى | Azeri | burmaq |
| Catalan | torçar,tòrcer | Danish | vride |
| Dutch | ineendraaien, torderen | English | twist |
| Esperanto | tordi | Estonian | keerduma |
| Finnish | vääristellä | French | retordre, torsader, tortiller |
| German | verdrehen, zwirnen | Hungarian | csavar |
| Indonesian | memelintir, memilin, memuntir, menggeliat, puntir | Italian | attorcigliare, attorcigliarsi, avviticchiare, avviticchiarsi, contorcere, distorcere, ritorcere, storcere, storcersi, stortare, svergolare, torcere |
| Japanese | 畝る, 捻る, 拗ける, 捩る | Lithuanian | susukti |
| Macedonian | извитка, изврти | Maori | whiri |
| Norwegian | tvinne | Persian | پیچیدن |
| Polish | pogiąć, przeinaczać, przekręcić, wykręcać, zwichrować | Portuguese | torcer |
| Quechua | kachuy, q'iwiy | Russian | закрутиться, закручиваться, крутить, покрутить, скрутить, скручивать |
| Spanish | torcer, torcerse | Swedish | twista |
| Thai | กระบิด, ตีเกลียว, บิด, เอี้ยว | Turkish | burkulmak, büğemek |
| Vietnamese | uẩn khúc, xoắn xuýt |