Contorted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contorted \Con*tort"ed\, a.
     1. Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of
        icicles." --Massinger.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]