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Significats de contortion en anglès

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конторсия
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contorção
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Skill of extreme physical flexibility.

        конторсия
        català
        torsió
        espanyol
        torsión

        A tortuous and twisted shape or position.

              torsió
              portuguès
              deformação
              català
              deformació
              espanyol
              contorsión

              The act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

                    deformació
                    Ús de contortion en anglès
                    1
                    A swift muscular contortion made the left shoulder strike the ground first.
                    The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
                    2
                    There was no struggle, no contortion, to mark the moment of dissolution.
                    The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
                    3
                    The uglier the contortion and more frightful the grimace, the louder they laughed.
                    Big Brother
                    4
                    But the smile quivered and ended in a pathetic contortion of her face.
                    Emily Fox-Seton / Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The M...
                    5
                    A curious contortion of the deaf-and-dumb alphabet was used among the
                    Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School
                    6
                    A smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
                    Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
                    7
                    And that kind of contortion does not look like strong leadership.
                    The Guardian
                    8
                    As of nervous contortion, the ghastly face presents an awful picture.
                    Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
                    9
                    The jagged contortion of forked lightning has imprinted its mark on your face.
                    The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                    10
                    Every mouth that was not making a contortion was emitting yells.
                    The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
                    11
                    Pure without attenuation, passionate without contortion, when once heard it exacted absolute confidence.
                    Vittoria — Volume 4
                    12
                    The younger man's smile was a mere contortion of the lips.
                    The Quickening
                    13
                    Strutting through his rented castle marvelling at the damp contortion of each antique.
                    A singular man
                    14
                    It is the representation of oddity climbing with knees, bizarre features, and contortion.
                    Climbing Magazine
                    15
                    McCloskey's face contortion was intended to figure as a derisive smile.
                    The Taming of Red Butte Western
                    16
                    Laveaux's eyes were grave and sad above the fixed contortion of his smile.
                    All souls' rising
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                    Translations for contortion
                    Contortion a través del temps
                    Contortion per variant geogràfica
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