| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| contorting | 8 letters | twisting |
| ||
| contorting | 9 letters | squeezing |
| contorting | 9 letters | torturing |
Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Holding something very tightly
- Firmly pressing to remove liquid
- Putting pressure on, maybe
- compressing
- abuse of terms
- catachresis
- clamping
- clamping down
- compression
- Concentration
- contorting
- Crush
- decoction
- distillation
- Distortion
- eisegesis
- Error
- Expression
- garbling
- Gloss
- Infusion
- malentendu
- malobservation
- misapplication
- misapprehension
- miscitation
- Misconception
- misconstruction
- misexplanation
- misexplication
- misexposition
- misintelligence
- misinterpretation
- Misjudgment
- misquotation
- misreading
- misrendering
- mistranslation
- Misunderstanding
- misuse of words
- Nip
- perversion
- Pinch
- Press
- Pressing
- Pressure
- Rendering
- Rendition
- Soaking
- Squeeze
- Steeping
- tightening
- torturing
- Tweak
- Twisting
- ......-wrenching
- Deliberately applying pain
- agonising
- abuse of terms
- Agonizing
- catachresis
- contorting
- Corruption
- Distortion
- eisegesis
- Error
- false coloring
- garbling
- Gloss
- Harrowing
- malentendu
- malobservation
- misapplication
- misapprehension
- miscitation
- Misconception
- misconstruction
- misdirection
- misexplanation
- misexplication
- misexposition
- misintelligence
- misinterpretation
- Misjudgment
- misquotation
- misreading
- misrendering
- Misrepresentation
- mistranslation
- Misunderstanding
- Misuse
- misuse of words
- perversion
- racking
- Slanting
- squeezing
- straining
- Tearing
- Tormenting
- torturous
- Twisting
- ......-wrenching
- Winding (together); distorting
- Interlacing; turning
- Full of bends
- Screwing or maybe even unscrewing
- Serpentine
- Bending, contorting
- Bending double almost hurt
- what the fiddler's doing for dancing!
- contortion
- detortion
- tortuous
- Wresting
- writhing
- Distortion
- deformity
- Convolution
- Zigzag
- Winding
- whorled
- Weave
- Web
- Waving
- Aberrant
- aberrative
- abstractionism
- abuse of terms
- ambages
- ambagious
- anfractuosity
- anfractuous
- Bending
- braiding
- catachresis
- Circuitous
- circuitousness
- circumambages
- circumbendibus
- Circumlocution
- Circumlocutory
- circumvolution
- Coloring
- contorting
- Convolutional
- crinkle
- crinkling
- Curving
- deformation
- Departing
- Desultory
- Deviant
- deviating
- deviative
- deviatory
- Devious
- digressive
- Discursive
- eisegesis
- enlacement
- entwinement
- Entwining
- Errant
- Erratic
- Error
- Exaggeration
- excursive
- expressionism
- Fabric
- false coloring
- falsification
- flexuose
- flexuosity
- flexuous
- flexuousness
- garbling
- Gloss
- Hyperbole
- Inaccuracy
- Indirect
- Injustice
- interknitting
- interlacement
- interlacery
- interlacing
- intertexture
- interthreading
- intertieing
- intertwinement
- intertwining
- intertwisting
- interweavement
- interweaving
- intorsion
- involute
- involuted
- involution
- involutional
- Knitting
- Labyrinthine
- lacing
- Litotes
- malentendu
- malobservation
- mazy
- Meander
- Meandering
- meandrous
- misapplication
- misapprehension
- miscitation
- miscoloring
- Misconception
- misconstruction
- misdrawing
- misexplanation
- misexplication
- misexposition
- misintelligence
- misinterpretation
- Misjudgment
- mispainting
- misquotation
- misreading
- misrendering
- Misreport
- Misrepresentation
- Misstatement
- misteaching
- mistranslation
- Misunderstanding
- misuse of words
- nonrealism
- Out of the way
- overdrawing
- Overstatement
- perversion
- Plaiting
- planetary
- Rambling
- rivose
- rivulation
- rivulose
- Roundabout
- roving
- Ruffled
- Shifting
- sinuate
- sinuation
- sinuose
- sinuosity
- Sinuous
- sinuousness
- Slanting
- slinkiness
- snakiness
- snaky
- squeezing
- Stray
- Swerving
- Texture
- ... tissue
- torsion
- torsional
- Tortile
- tortility
- tortuosity
- Tortuousness
- torturing
- Turning
- twining
- twisty
- Understatement
- undirected
- Undulation
- Vagrant
- veering
- Wandering
- warp-and-woof
- warpage
- ... wave
- weaving
- weftage
- wreathing
- wreathlike
- wreathy
- ......-wrenching
- Distorting, turning in strange ways