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torso

[ tawr-soh ]

noun

, plural tor·sos, tor·si [tawr, -see].
  1. the trunk of the human body.
  2. a sculptured form representing the trunk of a nude female or male figure.
  3. something mutilated or incomplete.


torso

/ ˈtɔːsəʊ /

noun

  1. the trunk of the human body
  2. a statue of a nude human trunk, esp without the head or limbs
  3. something regarded as incomplete or truncated


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Word History and Origins

Origin of torso1

1715–25; < Italian: stalk, trunk of statue < Latin thyrsus < Greek thýrsos wand, stem

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Word History and Origins

Origin of torso1

C18: from Italian: stalk, stump, from Latin: thyrsus

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Example Sentences

She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.

From the torso, the Lift claims the ability to better sense the true culprit of bad posture: the neck and shoulders.

The repetition of that became as tastelessly titillating as showing us a torn arm or a decomposing torso.

Every time he breathed, he felt pains all through his torso—fractured ribs.

He had skinny legs and bloated ribs fanning from his torso like an accordion strapped to his chest.

The thick torso of a man who squatted like a toad could be seen partly emerging from the shrubs.

The front legs stretched, and stretched, while the torso seemed to pull in on itself, shrinking in the death agonies.

He was stripped to the waist, his jacket in shreds, his compact torso white and gleaming.

He reached a hand toward the cutout, the torso of which still bulged upward from the desk.

Broken columns, marble capitals, here, there and everywhere at the bottom of the lake—here a head and there a torso!

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