se tortuer, v.r., to grow crooked, to crook, to bend.

tortueusement (-eûz-mān), adv., crookedly, tortuously.

tortueu-x, -se, adj., tortuous, winding, bending in and out; (fig.) artful, crafty; unfair, disingenuous.

tortuosité, n.f., (l.u.) tortuosity, crookedness; winding.

torture, n.f., torture, rack, pain. Mettre à la —; to put to the rack.

torturer, v.a., to torture, to put to the rack. — un texte, un passage; to strain or twist (the meaning of) a text, a part of a book, a writing.

tory, n.m. and adj., Tory.

torysme, n.m., Toryism.

toscan, -e, n. and adj., Tuscan.

toste, n.m. V. toast.