torso
torso (tôr′sō)
noun pl. -·sos or -·si-sē
- the trunk of a statue of the nude human figure, esp. of such a statue lacking the head and full limbs
- the trunk of the human body
- any unfinished or fragmentary piece of work
Etymology: It, stump, trunk of a statue < L thyrsus, a stalk, stem < Gr thyrsos, a stem, wand
Preposition: of
- man: Also included in campaign packs are postcards printed with heat sensitive ink showing the torso of a man or woman.
- woman: He called the railroad police who opened the trunk, finding inside the naked torso of a woman.
Possessives
- woman: The fifth looked like someone had stuck a hand grenade in the poor woman's torso.
- man: The tattooist started to sketch the tail into the man's torso: ' Ouch!
Converse of object
- cover: She described people with great sheets of skin hanging off of their bodies; grotesque swollen faces; torsos covered with large blisters.
- have: He has virtually no torso or legs: his neck blends almost straight into his huge, square sandals.
- twist: Later the dancers pass along criss-cross paths punctuated by stamping feet, wheeling arms and twisting torsos.
- keep: Bend the right knee to almost a 45 degree angle keeping the upper torso facing forward.
- tone: So while the men go wild over some fancy French footwork, our eyes are on Trezeguet's toned torso; the perfect compromise?
- show: Also included in campaign packs are postcards printed with heat sensitive ink showing the torso of a man or woman.
Adjective modifier
- headless: Grix's last thought was fear for his children, as he dropped heavily onto Tommy's headless torso.
- naked: He called the railroad police who opened the trunk, finding inside the naked torso of a woman.
- upper: Flex your waist to raise the upper torso from the mat.
- muscular: Now, when you got Holden's kit off, was her muscular torso a sure sign that she worked out a lot?
- bare: Athletes must not compete in the cycling or running sections with a bare torso.
- female: All of interest: the Blues as well as the Oranges; the tender as well as the brutal treatment of the female torso.
Modifies a noun
- murder: Amidst great media attention the long awaited book about the infamous Haw Bridge torso murder mystery was launched today at Haw Bridge.
- section: Just fit the bra section over the bust then roll the torso section over the belly.
- area: When watching the video, concentrate in the torso area, where the quick change release tabs are placed.
- upright: Your back heel your torso upright on your back the real estate.
I dread this like the dentist, rather more so: To me Art's subject is the human clay, And landscape but a background to a torso; All Ce¤ z anne's apples I would give away For one small Goya or a Daumier.
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.
Browse dictionary entries near torso
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- Tort Claims Act
- tort-feasor
- torta
- torte
- tortellini
- tortfeasor
- torticollis
- tortile
- tortilla
