face contorted by pain

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• face — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 front part of the head ADJECTIVE ▪ angelic, beautiful, cute, handsome, lovely, perfect, pleasant, pretty, sweet …   Collocations dictionary

• pain — noun 1 physical pain ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, agonizing, awful, blinding, excruciating, extreme, great, immense, intense, severe …   Collocations dictionary

• pain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Suffering Noun 1. pain, suffering, sufferance; hurt, cut; discomfort, painfulness; discomfort, malaise; nightmare; anguish, agony, misery, excruciation, torment, torture, rack; Weltschmerz; distress,… …   English dictionary for students

• pain — 1 /peIn/ noun 1 PHYSICAL (C, U) the feeling you have when part of your body hurts: be in pain (=having a pain in part of your body): Take these tablets if you re in pain. | feel pain: We ve given him an anaesthetic so he shouldn t feel any pain.… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• contort — [[t]kəntɔ͟ː(r)t[/t]] contorts, contorting, contorted V ERG If someone s face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position. His face contorts as he screams out the lyrics... [V n] The gentlest of… …   English dictionary

• contort — con|tort [ kən tɔrt ] verb intransitive or transitive if your face or body contorts or you contort it, it twists into shapes or positions that are not natural: A grimace of pain contorted her face. contort with: His face contorted with pain …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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• distort — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To change by pressure] Syn. warp, crush, twist; see bend 1 . 2. [To alter the meaning] Syn. pervert, misrepresent, misconstrue, twist; see deceive , lie 1 . 3. [To change shape] Syn. contort, sag, twist, slump, knot, get out …   English dictionary for students

• contort — [kən tôrt′] vt., vi. [< L contortus, pp. of contorquere, to whirl, twist < com , together + torquere, to twist: see TORT] to twist or wrench out of its usual form into one that is grotesque; distort violently [a face contorted with pain]… …   English World dictionary

• deform — [dē fôrm′, difôrm′] vt. [ME deformen < OFr deformer < L deformare < de , from + forma, FORM] 1. to impair the form or shape of 2. to make ugly; disfigure 3. Physics to change the shape of by pressure or stress vi. to become deformed SYN …   English World dictionary

• contort — UK [kənˈtɔː(r)t] / US [kənˈtɔrt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms contort : present tense I/you/we/they contort he/she/it contorts present participle contorting past tense contorted past participle contorted if your face or body contorts …   English dictionary