torso

[ tawr-soh ]

SEE DEFINITION OF torso

as instatue
as intrunk
as inbody
as infigure
as inform

Synonyms for torso

MOST RELEVANT

Antonyms for torso

entity

body

noun. physique

figure

noun. form, shape; physical structure

figures

noun. form, shape; physical structure

form

noun. animate body and its condition

forms

noun. animate body and its condition

Word Origin & History

1797, from Italian torso "trunk of a statue," originally "stalk, stump," from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus "stalk, stem," from Greek thyrsos (see thyrsus).

Example Sentences fortorso

The Englishman had the torso of a prize-fighter, with a face like that of a fair-haired baby.

We find that under the ribs in the torso are all the vital organs.

In every exercise feel a sympathetic expansion of the torso.

They are all expressed by sympathy and right expansion of the torso.

He went over the patient's torso, up and down, back and forth.

That is, they had a head, a torso, two arms and two legs apiece.

We have passed beyond the mid-century, but Hugo is not to be presented as a torso.

It rises above the torso of a woman white as mother-of-pearl.

In the centre, Watson—bareheaded, his torso bare and his arms naked.

In substance and demonstration it must be regarded as a torso.