Crossword clues for writhing
writhing
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.]
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To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. ``With writhing [turning] of a pin.''
--Chaucer.Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro.
--Milton.Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.
--Dryden.His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.
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To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed.
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To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.]
The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. A twisting struggle. vb. (present participle of writhe English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "writhing".
It had lidless eyes and horrible writhing hair that was a mass of eels with tiny sharp teeth nipping at her face.
I had fought for, to bucking, writhing, throwing my body from side to side.
It was as if that writhing dancelike movement went all the way down his body and inside mine.
I was making small wordless noises and writhing on the desk by the time he raised his face up and showed me eyes that had drowned in blue flame.
Each strand of its writhing hair was as thick as an eel with beady little eyes and a snapping mouth.
One of the other eunuchs hurried over with an uncovered pot into which Lady Eudokia gently deposited the writhing snake.
As the dirt spilled down on either side, maggots swarmed out of the earth, a writhing mass of them that scattered to safety and vanished back into the disturbed earth.
The creature had hair, of a kind, but in that last instant he realized that it was not hair at all but a coiling mass of hissing snakes writhing around its face.
Tshamarra writhing in soundless agony, tendrils of smoke streaming from her.
He released his hold on the now-aching breast and once more covered her full luscious lips with his own, as he rode atop her writhing body.
As the burning sensation that filled his balls reached a volcanic heat, the twisting and writhing girl below him clamped her thighs around him in a desperate leg lock.
Again and again, fountain after fountain rocketed into the ass of the girl writhing and twisting in pleasure before him.
Again and again, he slammed home until her hyper-sensitive tits drove her over the threshold of endurance into the twisting, writhing throes of ecstasy.
Reaching the edge of the small pond, he was immediately met by the sight of a monstrous snake writhing and splashing near the shore to his left.
Again and again, he tried to drive the flashing blade into the loathsome eyes of the writhing creature.