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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contorted \Con*tort"ed\, a.
1. Twisted, or twisted together. ``A contorted chain of
icicles.'' --Massinger.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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