Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contorted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Contorted \Con*tort"ed\, a.
1. Twisted, or twisted together. ``A contorted chain of
icicles.'' --Massinger.

2. (Bot.)
(a) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
(b) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in
contorted or convolute [ae]stivation.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

contorted
adj 1: twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad
contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen
features"- Walter scott [syn: {writhed}, {writhen}]
2: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of
steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: {distorted},
{twisted}]

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