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Definition of tort

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Tort (n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury..

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Meander :: Meander (n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.

Turtler :: Turtler (n.) One who catches turtles or tortoises.

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2..

Nul :: Nul (a.) No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort..

Grimace :: Grimace (v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

Self-torture :: Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

Entortilation :: Entortilation (n.) A turning into a circle; round figures.

Extortionary :: Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

Retortive :: Retortive (a.) Containing retort.

Malversation :: Malversation (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office..

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

Detortion :: Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping..

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Atwirl :: Atwirl (a. & adv.) Twisted; distorted; awry.

Chelonian :: Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.

Return :: Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting..

Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.