re-torqueō sī, tus, ēre, to twist back, turn back, throw back: caput in sua terga (anguis), O.: ora ad os Phoebi, O.: oculos ad urbem: tergo bracchia, H.: manibus retortis, H.: pantherae terga, to throw around, V.: retortis Litore violenter undis, thrown back, H.: missilia in hostem, Cu.: retorqueri agmen ad dextram conspexerunt, wheeled back, Cs.

—Fig., to change, alter: mentem, V.