retrotorting

Verb

retrotort (third-person singular simple present retrotorts, present participle retrotorting, simple past and past participle retrotorted)

1. (intransitive) To undergo retrotorsion.
2. (formal, rare, transitive) To twist backward.
   • But Greek and Latin are quite unequal, when disjoined from the elder wheels in our etymological system, to the working of the total machinery of the English language. Mr. Landor proceeds upon no fixed principles in his changes. Sometimes it is on the principle of internal analogy within itself...1861, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, volume 3, page 250

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