Usually means: Extreme bending of the body.
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  1. contortion: Merriam-Webster
  2. contortion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contortion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contortion: Vocabulary.com
  5. contortion: Wordnik
  6. contortion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. contortion: Wiktionary
  8. contortion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contortion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. contortion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Contortion, contortion: Dictionary.com
  12. Contortion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Contortion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. contortion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. contortion: Rhymezone
  16. Contortion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. contortion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. contortion: FreeDictionary.org
  19. contortion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. contortion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. contortion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. contortion: Legal dictionary

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  1. contortion: Encyclopedia

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  1. contortion: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contortion)

▸ noun:  The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
▸ noun:  A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

Similar:
torsion, tortuosity, deformation, tortuousness, crookedness, contortionism, crooking, curvation, arcuation, circumflexion, more...

Opposite:
alignment, straightening, unbending

Types:
backbend, frontbend, sidebend, twist, kneebend, hipbend, armbend, more...

Adjectives:
facial, violent, strange, muscular, much, physical, slight, sudden, queer, desperate, mental



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Similar:
torsion, tortuosity, deformation, tortuousness, crookedness, contortionism, crooking, curvation, arcuation, circumflexion, more...

Opposite:
alignment, straightening, unbending

Types:
backbend, frontbend, sidebend, twist, kneebend, hipbend, armbend, more...

Adjectives:
facial, violent, strange, muscular, much, physical, slight, sudden, queer, desperate, mental



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