Writhe
[raɪð]
Definition
(verb.) 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'.
Inputed by Harlow--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
(v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
(v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.
(v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Twist, distort, contort, make awry.
v. n. Wriggle, squirm, be distorted.
Inputed by Estella
Definition
v.t. to turn to and fro: to twist violently: to wrest: (obs.) to extort.—v.i. to twist.—n. (rare) a contortion.—adv. Wrī′thingly.
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Examples
- Let him writhe, in impotent malice, as we pen the words, _We will be there_. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He knew us directly; and said, as he came out--with the old writhe,-- 'How do you do, Mr. Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He must writhe on the edge of the chasm, suspended in chains of invisible physical life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They writhed her regal face to a demoniac mask. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He writhed, fumed, shifted his seat, and the beating of his heart was almost audible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But Hermione writhed in her soul, knowing what she could not know. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A screaming, gibbering maniac writhed in my grasp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She writhes and twists about like a snake. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She writhes under her life. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was suspended on the edge of a void, writhing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And then--' 'There's a bicycle coming,' he said, writhing under her loud denunciation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If this bursting heart, this writhing lip speak not, leave me to the fate I deserve, and which I shall meet undismayed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing under the agony of disease, while he held me with a convulsive grasp. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was writhing with inward merriment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For a moment Gilchrist, with upraised hand, tried to control his writhing features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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