Result of pushing too hard?

Usage examples of tilt.

Clodius Afer, tilting his head to peer at the curving surface of the ceiling eighty feet above.

Without stopping to shut the hatch Sai climbed through and ran along the tight tunnel leading to the aft compartment, and felt the deck tilt as the ship turned at high speed.

The deck tilted, and looking aft, it seemed the hundred-foot-long passageway was a stairwell, a ramp, inclined toward him, the lights no longer illuminating it, just some automatically activated battle lanterns.

In the alameda an old woman in a black rebozo was going about tilting the metal tables and chairs to let the water run off.

His mouth was fine, almost thin, and tilted at the moment in a lopsided grin that made him look younger than Alec would have guessed before.

Tilting the parchments to catch the scant light of the nearby hearth, Alec bent dubiously to his task.

The platform tilted down ominously as he shifted his weight, but Alec hauled him quickly to safety on the stairs.

Then, as in the tilting of a mirror, it shifted again to resemble a many-hoofed, amethystine crustacean coated in sores of oozing puss, out of which sprouted many black shiny eyes, which in turn were mounted on swaying, antennae-like projections.

Stone screams stunned the air as the platform on which Linden and Anele stood tilted outward.

He reached for the bottle of liquid antacid that sat on the dresser, opened it, tilted it, and drank deeply.

It looked like nothing more than a cairn marker, a huge, elongated slab of stone tilted upward at the southernmost end, as if pointing the way across the Nenoth Odhan to Aren or some other, more recent destination.

Iryala, but as virtually the entire human population of recent millennia lives in the equatorial zone, axial tilt does not directly impact the lives of Terfreyans.

There was a heavy clang, a thundering crash, the ship trembled, tilted, heeled, and slowly, painfully, settled back upright as Bade hung onto the desk and Runckel dove for cover.

Abruptly she tilted lifted the cup to her mouth unsteadily and gulped the contents, choking and coughing, then thrust it out toward Bayle for more.

He grasped her chin with the fingers of his free hand and tilted her head up so she had to look into his eyes - and meet the blueness boring into hers.