involuted
Americanadjective
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curving or curling inward.
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having an involved or complex nature.
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having resumed its normal size, shape, or condition.
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Example Sentences
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Yet Peterson has written not just a teasingly intellectual, delightfully involuted observation, but a critique of the way that we tend to observe.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but, as Jagu’s mind involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016
It’s so involuted the way people use those things.
From Forbes ● Sep. 9, 2014
Animal studies have shown that transplanted thymic grafts between inbred strains of mice involuted according to the age of the donor and not of the recipient, implying the process is genetically programmed.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but as Jagu’s mind had involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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