Contorted Meaning
/kəˈntɔrtəd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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verbsimple past and past participle of contort
adjTwisted; screwed up.
"We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair."— 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:
Sentence Examples
Sinograms are a result of a long, contorted, organic evolution.
Janos's face was contorted with horrific anger.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The yoga instructor's face was ____ from holding the difficult pose too long.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Sinograms are a result of a long, ____, organic evolution.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The yoga instructor's face was ____ from holding the difficult pose too long.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Sinograms are a result of a long, ____, organic evolution.