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| con·tort [ kən táwrt ] (past and past participle con·tort·ed, present participle con·tort·ing, 3rd person present singular con·torts) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb twist out of natural shape: to become so twisted as to take on an unnatural or grotesque shape, or to twist something, especially a part of the body, in this way
  Fear had contorted their faces.
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2. transitive verb make unrecognizable: to change something so greatly that it becomes unrecognizable
to contort the truth
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| [15th century. < Latin contort-, past participle of contorquere "twist violently" < torquere "to twist"] |
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| con·tor·tive adjective |
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