[V] ~ (about / around) (in / with sth) to twist or move your body without stopping, often because you are in great pain:
She was writhing around on the floor in agony. * The snake writhed and hissed. * (figurative) He was writhing (= suffering a lot) with embarrassment.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for writhe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is writhe a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, writhe is tagged as verb.
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