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1. Rolled longitudinally upon itself
   "a convoluted petal"
   - convolute
    
2. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
   "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"
   - Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous

1. Curl, wind, or twist together
   - convolve
    
2. Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
   "Don't convolute my words"
   - twist, twist around, pervert, sophisticate

See also: coiled, complex, convolution

Type of: bend, deform, denote, flex, refer, turn, twist

Encyclopedia: Convolute