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What does tortuous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tortuous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  2. (obsolete) injurious; tortious
  3. (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
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Its rulers could not have been that lethargic, or its diplomacy so tortuous, for it to have survived for such a long period.
The tortuous passage restricts or baffles the gas flow out of the glass assembly.
Driving to the same direction and following the acclivitous and tortuous roads, you reach the small village of Tsada, which is under development.
Published in 1967, L' amante Anglaise chronicles the tortuous windings and turnings of a mind perilously close to the edge of reason.
Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries.
It's a dangerous work to program for a soprano, because it has some tortuous reaches and it sometimes turns competent sopranos into screechers.

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