détorquer, v.a., to distort, to misrepresent. — un passage; to distort the meaning of a passage.
détors, -e, adj., untwisted.
☉détorse, n.f. V. entorse.
détortiller, v.a., to untwist; to unravel.
*se détortiller, v.r., to become untwisted; to be unraveled.
détouper, v.a., to unstop, to take out the bung, to clear of brambles; to take the tow out of.
*détoupillonner, v.a., to prune (orange-trees).
détour, n.m., winding, turning; roundabout way, circuitous road; shift, evasion, trick, subterfuge, dodge. Le — d’une rue; the turning of a street. Les —s d’un bois; the windings and turnings of a wood. Quel — vous avez fait! what a roundabout way you have come! Je connais ses tours et ses —s; I know all his evasions and subterfuges. Être sans —; to be sincere, straightforward. User de —s; to resort to shifts and evasions.
détourné, -e, part., turned away; retired; indirect, oblique. Des chemins —s; by-ways. Voie —e; indirect means.