Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Twisted or strained out of shape.
- adjective Botany Twisted, bent, or partially rolled upon itself; convolute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Twisted; drawn awry; distorted; twisted on itself: in botany, usually the same as
convolute , with reference to estivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Twisted, or twisted together.
- adjective Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
- adjective Arranged so as to overlap each other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
contort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)
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Examples
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Gavino’s face whipped in their direction and his expression contorted into one of loathing.
Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010
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In a short video, men tied in contorted positions are held down on the ground and questioned.
Indonesia Military Confirms Troops In Papua Torture Footage (GRAPHIC VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In a short video, men tied in contorted positions are held down on the ground and questioned.
Indonesia Military Confirms Troops In Papua Torture Footage (GRAPHIC VIDEO) Curtis M. Wong 2010
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In a short video, men tied in contorted positions are held down on the ground and questioned.
Indonesia Military Confirms Troops In Papua Torture Footage (GRAPHIC VIDEO) Curtis M. Wong 2010
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The 2010 election was the political equivalent of the perfect crime: The GOP vigorously took on all reforms designed to rebalance the economy for the long term, tying Washington up in contorted knots, then were rewarded at the polls by voters dissatisfied with an ugly D.C. culture unable to produce economic renewal.
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson: Giving the Keys Back to the Folks Who Crashed the Car Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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In a short video, men tied in contorted positions are held down on the ground and questioned.
Indonesia Military Confirms Troops In Papua Torture Footage (GRAPHIC VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In Sunbury, and at intervals along the road, were dead bodies lying in contorted attitudes, horses as well as men, overturned carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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Her expression contorted and she barked at the tall southerner's companion.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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" Her expression contorted as she watched the bound assassin being removed from the room.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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" Her expression contorted as she watched the bound assassin being removed from the room.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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