CONTORT
Dictionary entry overview: What does contort mean? • CONTORT (verb)
The verb CONTORT has 1 sense:
1. twist and press out of shape
Familiarity information: CONTORT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CONTORT (verb)
Meaning:
Twist and press out of shape
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
contort; wring; deform; distort
Hypernyms (to "contort" is one way to...):
distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "contort"):
morph (change shape as via computer animation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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