0 present participle of contort
1 to (cause something to) twist or bend violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form:
His face contorted with bitterness and rage.
An intended victim, depending on how it was gripped, was often physically unable to reach the attacker with its mandibles, despite visibly contorting its body in attempts to do so.
Kafka himself can only mimic sound's power to trespass space and transgress form: contorting himself into a snake, dragging his body across the passage through which its voices glide.
Today we find ourselves contorting our long tradition of domestic liberty.
The mine often starts contorting, frequently encircling the stem.
An example of a repulsive effect is a molecule contorting to minimize the coulombic interactions of atoms that hold like charges.
In one scene, her feet are shown contorting and digging into the bed, and she is wiggling her toes and kicking her feet around.
It consists of a contorting of the body into a series of ritualized postures coupled with an exaggerated swimming style.
So, essentially he created this masterpiece by contorting his fingers into really groovy shapes.
