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Definition of Contort

1. Verb. Twist and press out of shape.

Definition of Contort

1. v. t. To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

Definition of Contort

1. to twist out of shape [v -ED, -ING, -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Contort

continuous suture continuous tense continuous time model continuous tremor continuous variable continuum continuums contline contlines conto

Contopus Contopus sordidulus Contopus virens contorno contornos contort (current term) contorted contorting contortion contortionist

contortionistic contortionists contortions contortive contorts contos contour contour contoured contouring

Literary usage of Contort

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1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A writer in the Spectator tells us of a country rector in Ireland who was liable to contort and tangle his words in strange fashion. ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"(L. contort«».) Applied to the parts of a single whorl placed in a circle, each exhibiting a torsion of its axis. (Stor- month. ..."

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