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
In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation or a reflex.
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
He runs atilt, as has been said, at "copy-book texts," at the temperance reformer, the tract distributer, the Good Boy of Sunday-school literature, and the women who send bouquets and sympathetic letters to interesting criminals.
From Initial Studies in American Letters by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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