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Look up: Contorted

  1. contorted
    [adj] - twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) 2. [adj] - strained or wrenched out of normal shape
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Contorted
    Con·tort'ed adjective 1. Twisted, or twisted together. 'A contorted chain of icicles.' Massinger. 2. (Botany) (a) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants. (b) Arranged so as to overlap e...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/148

  3. contorted
    distorted adjective strained or wrenched out of normal shape; `old trees with contorted branches`; `scorched and distorted fragments of steel`; `trapped under twisted steel girders`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. contorted
    writhen adjective twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); `his mad contorted smile`; `writhed lips`; `my writhen features`- Walter scott
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Contorted
    • (a.) Twisted, or twisted together. • (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation. • (a.) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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