"contorted" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more contorted [comparative], most contorted [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} contorted (comparative more contorted, superlative most contorted)
  1. Twisted; screwed up. Derived forms: contortedly, contortedness, uncontorted
    Sense id: en-contorted-en-adj-a5De-Pje Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} contorted
  1. simple past and past participle of contort Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: contort
    Sense id: en-contorted-en-verb-7sm0Z4w4
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          "text": "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.",
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