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tortuous
UK /ˈtɔːt͡ʃuːəs/ US /ˈtɔɹt͡ʃuəs/
adj 3
Definitions
adj
1
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
2
Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous.
3
Injurious; tortious.
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