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CONTORT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Twist and press out of shape

Synonyms:

contort; deform; distort; wring

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "contort" is one way to...):

distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)

Verb group:

wrench; wring (twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish)

wring (twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid)

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

Derivation:

contortion (the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself))

contortion (a tortuous and twisted shape or position)

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