anfractuous

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- Medicine, abatement of symptoms; Music, tuning to lower pitch. anfractuous adj. - winding, tortuous

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  1. adjective Full of twists and turns; tortuous.

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  • - Medicine, abatement of symptoms; Music, tuning to lower pitch. anfractuous adj. - winding, tortuous —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Evolution still insists on including certain classes that are simply no fun to drive, though, and attempting to persuade catatonic big rigs around an anfractuous Gordian knot of narrow dirt roads remains a torturous exercise in futility. —  Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
  • Thin, anfractuous highways and dirt roads scarred the green and brown landscape, and as far as the eye could reach were to be seen farmhouses and barns and silos. —  Quill's Window
 

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  1. From Late Latin anfractuōsus, from Latin anfrāctus, winding : am-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + frāctus, past participle of frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French anfractus-eux, from Latin anfractuosus, round about, winding, from anfractus, a bending, a winding: see anfract.
 

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