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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, buckle, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, disproportion, distortion, gnarl, imbalance, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, quirk, screw, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring
Dictionary Results for contortion:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
contortion
    n 1: the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something
         (e.g., yourself) [syn: contortion, deformation]
    2: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree
       house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat
       performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity,
       tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Contortion \Con*tor"tion\ (k[o^]n*t[^o]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
   contortio: cf. F. contorsion. See Contort, and cf.
   Torsion.]
   A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the
   contortion of the muscles of the face. --Swift.
   [1913 Webster]

         All the contortions of the sibyl, without the
         inspiration.                             --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]
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