contortion
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7.1
- noun
- /kənˈtɔrʃən/
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contorsión
- In the performance, the dancer executed a flawless contortion that left the audience in awe.
Examples
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So we're back to the EPA's contortion of classifying natural gas combined cycle as an emission-reduction system adequately demonstrated for coal power plants.
Blog text (8) -
Each piece looks as if a giant hand has twisted it into a bizarre contortion.
Fiction book (1996) -
All this, all the subterfuge and contortion, only to call his wife by his mistress's name.
Fiction book (1997) -
And who can imagine and tell of all the marvelous and strange contortions of the body's members?
Academic text (2002) -
Max was only used to watching from the bar the ridiculous effect it had on the trim bodies and the graceless contortions.
Fiction book (1995) -
His heavy, bassy voice gently guides them through their contortions.
Blog text (28) -
Here, phantoms of the soul disperse until only contortions, breathlessness, and sweat remain.
Fiction book (1993) -
Even in flying by, one sees flashes of fantastic gargoyle-like resemblances to persons one has known, caricatured into impossible contortions, as if by some medieval humorousness.
Blog text (22) -
The statue's design features a dramatic contortion of the figure's limbs, creating a sense of movement.
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The artist captured the contortion of the tree branches as they twisted under the weight of the snow.
Synonyms
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5.9
A change in the shape of an object that makes it look or work worse
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8.1
A force that twists an object so it turns around its axis
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5.5
A bent, not straight shape like a picture frame or tree trunk
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7.8
Bending or twisting of a thing so it loses its original shape
Something that no longer looks like its original form after bending or heat
Antonyms
How Twisted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Contortion comes from Latin con- 'together' and torquere 'to twist', a root you also find in words such as distort and torque. So a contortion is a twisted or deformed shape that happens when something is bent out of its normal form.