Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - contort
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Contort
contort
(contorts, contorting, contorted) If someone’s face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position. His face contorts as he screams out the lyrics... The gentlest of her caresses would contort his already tense body... Brenner was breathing hard, his face contorted with pain. VERB: V, V n, V-ed
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verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ~us, past participle of contorquere, from com- + torquere to twist — more at torture Date: 15th century transitive verb to twist in a violent manner features ~ed with fury intransitive verb to twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression Synonyms: see deform • ~ion noun • ~ive adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. twist or force out of normal shape. Etymology: L contorquere contort- (as COM-, torquere twist) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. искривлять to contort a tree-trunk —- деформировать ствол дерева 2. искажать his features were violently contorted —- его лицо исказилось до неузнаваемости a face contorted with anger —- искаженное гневом лицо to contort a word out of its ordinary meaning —- исказить обычный смысл слова ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v to twist something so that it does not have its normal shape, and looks strange or unattractive, or to twist in this way (His face was contorted with rage.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- early 15c., from L. contortus, prp. of contorquere "to whirl, twist," from com- "together" + torquere "to twist." Contortionist first recorded 1859. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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