Synonym: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding. Similar words: virtuous, torturous, fatuous, unctuous, sumptuous, impetuous, tumultuous, voluptuous. Meaning: ['tɔrtʃʊəs /'tɔː-] adj. 1. highly complex or intricate 2. marked by repeated turns and bends 3. not straightforward.
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61. The virtual images and the real images of all objects as well as the concepts passing through time and space multiplied and grew in tortuous space and complanate time.
62. But China does not admit "action in rem", so "ship" itself cannot be held liable as the tortfeasor for the tortuous act arising from a collision.
63. From these three stages we can see that in land revolution period the cognition of CPC to the small propertied class experienced a tortuous process .
64. With CEUS using SonoVue, enhancement of capsular vessels is seen at 10-15 s, followed by the appearance of internal aberrant and usually tortuous blood vessels, whereas the hilus is undetectable.
65. The cuboidal cells often extend valve-like cytoplasmic processes which give the channels a tortuous course.sentencedict.com
66. The quality or condition of being tortuous; twistedness or crookedness.
67. Gunmetal sheen of sundown bathes craggy terrain where the Rio Grande cuts a tortuous path.
68. The turbidite deposits are of both gravity flow and traction flow, forming not only fan-shaped lobes and dendritic channels, but also high tortuous channel systems by its inner circulation flow.
69. She went out of the town by a tortuous back street, and drove slowly along, unconscious of the road and the scene.
70. For decades, the United States has relied on a tortuous financial arrangement that knits together its economy with those of China and Japan.
71. The discovery of Yancheng natural gas accumulation is tortuous and enlightening.
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