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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Extortious :: Extortious (a.) Extortionate.
Tortion :: Tortion (n.) Torment; pain.
Retorter :: Retorter (n.) One who retorts.
Griper :: Griper (a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..
Bottine :: Bottine (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children..
Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..
Synchronal :: Synchoresis (n.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.
Adopter :: Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters..
Torture :: Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..
Outwrest :: Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.
Testudineous :: Testudineous (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body..
Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Contorted :: Contorted (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation..
Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.
Green-eyed :: Green-eyed (a.) Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts.
Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
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