Tort

Adjective

 * 1) Tart, sharp.

Noun

 * 1) An injury or wrong.
 * 2)  A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied at civil law, usually through awarding damages. A delict.
 * 3)   The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.

Thesaurus
atrocity, breach, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delict, delinquency, dereliction, diablerie, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, venial sin, violation, wrong, wrongdoing

Etymology 1
Dialectal variation of.

Etymology 2
From tort.

Noun

 * Finnish: vahinko


 * Finnish: vahingonteko, vahingoittaminen, delikti


 * Polish: delikt

Derived terms

 * tortious

Anagrams

 * trot

Noun

 * 1) fault
 * Elle a le tort d'avoir trop de précipitation. Her trouble is, she's too hasty.
 * Le mari n'a aucun tort. The husband is not to blame.
 * 1) wrong, error
 * Je regrette, vous avez tort. I'm afraid you are mistaken.
 * Nous avons fait notre choix, à tort ou à raison. We have made our choice, rightly or wrongly.
 * ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.
 * ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.

Etymology
From tortum, substantive use of the past participle of torqueo:.

Anagrams

 * trot

Noun

 * 1)  offense against someone, an insult or inconvenience caused to someone

Etymology
From, from torquere:

Noun

 * 1) wrong; misdeed (something considered wrong)

Descendants

 * English:
 * French:

Noun

 * 1) torte (type of cake)

Noun

 * 1) thread (spun and made of hemp)
 * 2) quantity of spun threads

Related terms

 * toarce

Noun

 * 1) a cake

Etymology 1
From tortus.

Etymology 2
From Torte.

Alternative forms

 * tortă

Noun

 * 1) tart
 * 2) cake