Definition of Contorting

1. Verb. (present participle of contort) ¹

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Definition of Contorting

1. contort [v] - See also: contort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contorting

continuums
contline
contlines
conto
contoid
contoids
contone
contorno
contornos
contorsion
contorsional
contort
contorted
contortedly
contortedness
contorting (current term)
contortion
contortionate
contortionism
contortionist
contortionistic
contortionists
contortions
contortive
contorts
contortuplicate
contos
contour
contour feather
contour feathers

Literary usage of Contorting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Basic Outline of Universology: An Introduction to the Newly Discovered by Stephen Pearl Andrews (1872)
"The Serpentine is therefore the simplest abridged Symbol of this Dimension, indicative of Undulating and contorting Movement of the body along the Median ..."

2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"A violent horizontal blow backwards, opposed by a resistance in a (lower plane, causes obviously a contorting "couple" or twist to be generated, ..."

3. Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by James Donald, William Chambers (1878)
"... act of contorting-; a twisting of anything out of its natural position. Contort, kon-tort', vt, io twist or turn violently; to writhe :—Pr.p. contorting ..."

4. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"The famous miniature trees, produced by clipping and contorting and often trained into picturesque or ideal shapes, are largely of this species. ..."

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