tort

Pronunciation: /tɔːt/

The English word “tort” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

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.
An injury or wrong.

adjective

Twisted.
Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)
Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”).
Of a boat: watertight.

Etymology

From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately…

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