(transitive) To twist in a violent manner. | (intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
How to use Contort in a Sentence?
The rabbit, which had been hanging placidly suspended, was now seized with spasms and began to twitch and contort violently.
An enterprise, too, which an ingenious counsel, before a judge of less than average intelligence, might very easily contort and twist into an act of piracy.