Tort

Quick meaning: Tort is a noun meaning (British, dialectal) Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”).

Meaning

(British, dialectal) Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”).

More Meanings

1. Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”).
2. (nautical) Of a boat: watertight.
3. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
4. (obsolete) An injury or wrong.
5. (obsolete) Twisted.
6. (slang) Clipping of tortoise.
7. (slang) Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings; a tortie”).

Example Sentences

Yet holds he them with tortest rein, / That they may seize and entertain / The glance that to their glance opposes, / Like fiery honey sucked from roses.

For no vvild beaſts ſhould do them any torte / There or abroad, ne vvould his maieſtye / Vſe them but vvell, vvith gracious clemencye, / As vvhome he knevv to him both faſt and true; […]

Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.

And the firſt that came and gaue them moſt comfort was Henry Erle of Lãcaſter with yͤ wrie neck, called Tort coll [torticollis], who was brother to Thomas Erle of Lãcaſter yͭ was behedded, as ye haue heard before, who was a right vertuous & good knight as after ye ſhal here.

Word Forms

• torts
• torter
• tortest

Synonyms for tort

Depending on context, synonyms include delict, tortfeasance, crime, error, misdeed, misdemeanor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harm, damage, injurious, injury, grievance, fault.

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