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Contort   /kəntˈɔrt/   Listen
verb
Contort  v. t.  To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. "The vertebral arteries are variously contorted." "Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Contort" Quotes from Famous Books



... with her, but he did not tell her so; he managed to contort his face into something resembling a grin, and retreated to the hotel, where he swallowed two glasses of whiskey to start his blood moving again, and then sat down and played poker disasterously until daylight ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower

... shut my eyes till nine o'clock. I kept seeing that Spanish woman whirl around and contort, and—do you mind my telling you? —I couldn't just help it, I" (leaning forward to Jack) "got up and tried it before the glass. There! Are ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner



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