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Bend out of shape
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writhe
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB around ▪ Within moments the man had me writhing around in agony as he dug his hands into my feet, ankles and calves. ▪ He tumbled to the ground, writhed around on the dirt and covered himself with dust. ■ NOUN agony ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Writhe \Writhe\, v. t. [imp. Writhed ; p. p. Writhed , Obs. or Poetic Writhen ; p. pr. & vb. n. Writhing .] [OE. writhen, AS. wr[=i]?an to twist; akin to OHG. r[=i]dan, Icel. r[=i]?a, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe , Wrest , Wroth .] To twist; to turn; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In knot theory , there are several competing notions of the quantity writhe , or Wr . In one sense, it is purely a property of an oriented link diagram and assumes integer values. In another sense, it is a quantity that describes the amount of "coiling" ...
Usage examples of writhe.
Is there not something horrible in the look and sound of the word afanc, something connected with the opening and shutting of immense jaws, and the swallowing of writhing prey?
Now Alan was leaning over the sink, staring down into darkness, holding on to the darkness, which writhed and scratched beneath him.
They heaved in a great, tangled mass, thrusting, licking, panting, writhing, biting, while a crowd gathered on the sidewalk beneath the building, gesturing upward toward the ludicrous alfresco scene.
They writhed and twisted and foamed, broke open in sores as the bacteria destroyed the binding structure of the amorphous tissue.
With each mortal wound, an amphibian pitched writhing into space and tumbled flailing against those behind.
The woman seemed unaware of the effect her kindness to the Hermunduri had had upon the villagers, but Anomia knew and writhed inwardly with jealousy.
Saturday, 21st, he was taken with another attack, writhing in great agony, with all the distressing symptoms of arsenical poisoning.
Above my head, that unpleasant, snake-necked bird came gliding back towards the ruins, and I saw that its beack was hooked around a fish that writhed and struggled helplessly.
As promised, the whining grew stronger, until ho Bem and the other Pandronian soldiers were once agam writhing in pain.
More than many of the girls had I squirmed in the alcoves, sometimes chained, writhing under the touch of masters, whimpering and crying out the submission I could not help but yield.
Completely successful, it could have turned most of the London or New York of that time, after some clamour and running and writhing and choking, into a cityful of distorted corpses.
He was a scoundrel and a slanderer, and writhed under the thought that he could not go to Naples and torment his relations, who were in reality respectable people, but monsters according to his shewing.
Fuzzy kept watch over the writhing croc trapped in the wall-hole, they danced safely by.
Writhing on the floor, his body and brain useless appendages to a cruciform of horrific pain radiating through his body, Isozaki tried to scream through his locked jaws.
He quickly cuffed her and then turned to David Dale, who was struggling to his knees amid the crushed roses, writhing and howling in agony.