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Word Meanings - CONTORTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger. Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants. Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • CONTORTION
    A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • DERANGED
    Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
  • DEFORMATION
    1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
  • DISTORTIVE
    Causing distortion.
  • DERANGE
    1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
  • DEFORMITY
    deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
  • CONTORT
    To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ASKEW
    Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.
  • DISTORTION
    An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
  • DISTORTER
    One who, or that which, distorts.
  • DISTORT
    Distorted; misshapen. Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.
  • DEFORM
    1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above
  • CONTORTIVE
    Expressing contortion.
  • CONTORTED
    1. Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger. Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants. Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.
  • CONTORTUPLICATE
    Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.
  • DEFORMED
    Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.
  • CONTORTIONIST
    One who makes or practices contortions.

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