• n.
    ⦿a tortuous and twisted shape or position
    lexical concept
  • the acrobat performed incredible contortions
  • they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:contortion
  2. enl:crookedness
  3. enl:torsion
  4. enl:tortuosity
  5. enl:tortuousness
wn:interlingual indexili:i109906

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • contortioncrookednesstorsiontortuositytortuousness
  • tortuosity