Associations to the word «Contort»
Noun
Adverb
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Wiktionary
CONTORT, verb. (transitive) To twist in a violent manner; as, features contorted with fury.
CONTORT, verb. (intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
Dictionary definition
CONTORT, verb. Twist and press out of shape.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.