adjective
- Twisted or strained out of shape.
- Botany Twisted, bent, or partially rolled upon itself; convolute.
Related Forms:
- con·tort′ed·ly
adverb
- con·tort′ed·ness
noun
verb
The definition of contorted is twisted or bent in an unnatural way.
When you had to twist your body to try to reach behind you to zip your own zipper, this is an example of a time when you contorted.
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of contort.
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contorted - Medical Definition
adj.
- Twisted or strained out of shape.
- Botany Twisted, bent, or partially rolled upon itself; convolute.
Related Forms:
- con·tort′ed·ly
adv.
- con·tort′ed·ness
n.
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Sentence Examples
- Hot pain slid through him as his body contorted into the new form.
- The contorted strata of slate and greywacke rock must have been formed at a period vastly anterior to that in which the lake of the upper valley managed to force an outlet through the enclosing barriers.
- They are often highly contorted and dislocated.
- Cynthia held the door handle, looking ready to jump while Dean contorted around the shift stick, barely able to press the pedal with his toe.
- He sometimes altered and contorted the facts; he very often unduly simplified his problems; he was very apt when he had proved a favourite opinion true to infer it to be the whole truth.
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WORDS NEAR contorted IN THE DICTIONARY
- contorted
- contortedly
- contortedness
- contorting