Crossword-Solution: CONTORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contort | v. t. | To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “CONTORT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Get in a twist | 1 answer |
| Emulate a yogi | 1 answer |
| Demonstrate extreme flexibility, as an acrobat | 1 answer |
| Be wry | 1 answer |
| Prisoner's wrongful act? | 1 answer |
| twist and press out of shape | 1 answer |
| Turn awry. | 1 answer |
| Get twisted | 2 answers |
| Get out of shape | 3 answers |
| Become twisted | 4 answers |
| Twist violently | 4 answers |
| Bend out of shape | 9 answers |
| Twist out of Shape | 9 answers |
| Gnarl | 11 answers |
| Grimace | 22 answers |
| wriggle | 25 answers |
| Disfigure | 26 answers |
| Wrench | 26 answers |
| Garble | 29 answers |
| misshape | 30 answers |
| Curl | 30 answers |
| flex | 30 answers |
| Misrepresent | 31 answers |
| writhe | 33 answers |
| deform | 35 answers |
| Mangle | 38 answers |
| MAKE unshapely | 42 answers |
| Warp | 46 answers |
| MOVE sinuously | 49 answers |
| Distort | 49 answers |
| Deflect | 54 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
| Worm | 60 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
| Twist | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACMEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONTORT (5)
The variety of grotesque shapes into which apple, trees contort themselves has its effect on those who get acquainted with them: they stretch out their crooked branches, and take such hold of the imagination, that we remember them as humorists and odd fellows.
Let them live as long as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of shape they please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime gaudiness of pink blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they afford us only an apple or two in a season.
And at the same time he began to contort his face, and signal with his mouth and eyebrows, like one who desired to convey a warning, yet dared not utter a sound.
The fish was not yet dead, but every now and then would contort its length in an effort to escape from the talons which were thrust deeper and deeper into it, making bright spots of blood on the scaly sides.
Meantime, Poor Peter Peebles, whose shallow brain was altogether unable to bear the importance of the moment, kept as close to his young counsel as shadow to substance, affected now to speak loud, now to whisper in his ear, now to deck his ghastly countenance with wreathed smiles, now to cloud it with a shade of deep and solemn importance, and anon to contort it with the sneer of scorn and derision.
Quotes with CONTORT (3)
The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
The very fact that we need to struggle for approval proves that we do not approve of ourselves. Having to convince ourselves of something means we do not really believe it. That is why we contort ourselves grotesquely, lose sight of who we really are, and tangle ourselves pathetically in a complicated falsification of our lives.
But what might a woman say about church as she? What might a woman say about the church as body and bride? Perhaps she would speak of the way a regular body moves through the world — always changing, never perfect — capable of nurturing life, not simply through the womb, but through hands, feet, eyes, voice, and brain. Every part is sacred. Every part has a function. Perhaps she would speak of impossible expectations and all the time she’s wasted trying to contort herself int…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).