[
UK
/ɹˈaɪð/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪθ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪθ/ ]
VERB
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to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
The prisoner writhed in discomfort
The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
How To Use writhe In A Sentence
- She writhed her hands till here fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
- Instead of talking about the mechanical superiority of their latest cars, manufacturers hired the sexiest, perkiest breasted young women they could find to writhe, lean and lick their lips next to their new products. Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
- Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
- She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy. What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
- They are born artists: dancers who writhe rhythmically; musicians - singing intervals long before they speak language.
- Handed one of his enemy Colly Cibber's pamphlets against him, he supposedly declared, "These things are my diversion"--but those who watched as he read it saw "his features writhen with anguish". Archive 2009-09-01
- They surely writhe under this pressure.
- Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
- Taibhsear watched in awe as the great body writhed and twisted, and a new egg fell to join the others.
- Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last. The Fair Maid of Perth