Word Meanings - CONTORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTORT)

• Twist
• Contort
• convolve
• complicate
• pervert
• distort
• wrest
• wreath
• wind
• encircle
• form
• weave
• insinuate
• unite
• interpenetrate
• Warp
• Turn
• twist
• shrink
• give
• contort
• bias
• unhinge
• prejudice
• corrupt
• narrow

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTORT)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to CONTORT)

• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• UNHINGE
  1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• WEAVER
  A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
• CONVOLVE
  To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• WEAVE
  1. To practice weaving; to work with a loom. 2. To become woven or interwoven.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• UNWEAVE
  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.