tort
tort is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Law) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury. Executor de son tort. See under Executor. -- Tort feasor (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser. Wharton.
- 2.Stretched tight; taut. [R.] Yet holds he them with tortestrein. Emerson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- alogy
- and
- anticlimax
- bad
- bathos
- bias
- bigotry
- blunder
- boutade
- box
- breach
- bull
- contradictory
- cry
- custom
- delusion
- disorder
- egregious
- ell
- encroach
- escapade
- exaggeration
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- favor
- favoritism
- fool
- foolish
- for
- foul
- fustian
- gibberish
- give
- grievance
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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