adverb
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in a tilted or inclined position
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archaic in or as if in a joust
Etymology
Origin of atilt
Example Sentences
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They’re atilt like the house, and, like that javelin, too strangely angled.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Framed photos of family members hanging from the walls, not a single one atilt.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2017
Head atilt, unrelentingly wide-eyed, she explains: "The audience has changed and I've changed."
From Time Magazine Archive
If, on the other hand, he sees a toppling multicolored cube atilt against an oblong vegetable, with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a twittering up in the branches, A chirp and a lilt, And crimson atilt on a swaying twig.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy
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