Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Contorted \Con*tort"ed\, a.
   1. Twisted, or twisted together. ``A contorted chain of
      icicles.'' --Massinger.

   2. (Bot.)
      (a) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
      (b) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in
          contorted or convolute [ae]stivation.

Source : WordNet®

contorted
     adj 1: twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad
            contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen
            features"- Walter scott [syn: {writhed}, {writhen}]
     2: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
        contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of
        steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: {distorted},
         {twisted}]