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41gnarled — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. knotty, burred, cross grained; misshapen, deformed; rough, wiry, rugged. See distortion, roughness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. knotted, twisted, contorted; see bent . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) …
42deformed — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distorted, misshapen, disfigured, crippled, misproportioned, malformed, bowed, cramped, ill proportioned, disjointed, awry, unseemly, ill favored, dwarfed, hunchbacked, humpbacked, warped, misconceived, maimed, mangled …
43contort — con|tort [kənˈto:t US o:rt] v [I and T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of contorquere, from com ( COM ) + torquere to twist ] if you contort something, or if it contorts, it twists out of its normal shape and looks strange… …
44contort — con|tort [ kən tɔrt ] verb intransitive or transitive if your face or body contorts or you contort it, it twists into shapes or positions that are not natural: A grimace of pain contorted her face. contort with: His face contorted with pain …
45Brossier, Marthe — (16th century) Fraudulent POSSESSION case. Used as a vehicle for raising money from the gullible, Marthe Brossier’s alleged possession by BEELZEBUB also served as a means for the Catholic Church to try to undercut the religious reform of the… …
46deform — deform, distort, contort, warp mean to mar or spoil a person s or thing s appearance, character, true nature, or development by or as if by twisting. Deform is the least specific of these terms in its implications; sometimes, it carries no… …
47contortion — [kən tôr′shən] n. [ME contorsioun] 1. a contorting or being contorted, esp. of the face or body 2. a contorted condition or position contortive adj …
48writhed — adjective twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) (Freq. 1) his mad contorted smile writhed lips my writhen features Walter scott • Syn: ↑contorted, ↑writhen • Similar to: ↑ …
49writhen — adjective twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) his mad contorted smile writhed lips my writhen features Walter scott • Syn: ↑contorted, ↑writhed • Similar to: ↑crooked …
50Aglais Milberti — Tortoise Tor toise, n. [OE. tortuce, fr. OF. tortis crooked, fr. L. tortus twisted, crooked, contorted, p. p. of torquere, tortum, to wind; cf. F. tortue tortoise, LL. tortuca, tartuca, Pr. tortesa crookedness, tortis crooked. so called in… …
