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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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Twist :: Twist (n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

Emyd :: Emyd (n.) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Distorting :: Distorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distor.

Setdown :: Setdown (n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect..

Clubhand :: Clubhand (n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand..

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.

Intortion :: Intortion (n.) See Intorsion.

Pretorture :: Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.

Tortiously :: Tortiously (adv.) In a tortous manner.

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow..

Polling :: Polling (n.) Plunder, or extortion..

Contorted :: Contorted (a.) Twisted, or twisted together..

Tortrix :: Tortrix (n.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace..

Testudinal :: Testudinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise..

Retort :: Retort (v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.