tort

Meaning of tort

noun
  1. An injury or wrong.
  2. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
  3. (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

adjective

Tart; sharp.

adjective

Stretched tight; taut.

noun

A tortoise.

noun

A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

Information about tort

Hyphenation of tort

tort

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • tort is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tort synonyms

Meaning :

delict

Translation of tort

Anagrams of tort

Trot, trot

Words that rhyme with tort

detort, retort, contort, intort, abstort, bistort, distort, overdistort, extort

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