dē-torqueō sī, tus, ēre, to bend aside, turn off, turn away, turn, direct: ponticulum: Ora dextrā equorum, V.: lumen ab illā, O.: volnus, averted, V.: alqd in dextram partem: ad regem cursūs, V.: cervicem ad oscula, H.

—To twist, distort, put out of shape: partes corporis detortae.

—Of words: parce detorta, H.

—Fig., to turn aside, divert, pervert: animos a virtute: quae (voluntas testium) nullo negotio flecti ac detorqueri potest: te alio pravum (i. e. ad aliud vitium), H.

—To distort, misrepresent: calumniando omnia detorquendoque suspecta efficere, L.: verba prave detorta, Ta.