The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
She was writhing around/about on the ground.
informal
He and four other senators were writhing in the glare of unfavourable publicity.
Meaning of writhe in English
writhe | American Dictionary
(Definition of writhe from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of writhe
writhe
The writhing serpent passing through this item is clearly not par t of the static ceremonial bar.
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We see a world writhing, as it were, in a purgatory of its own making.
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We see the world writhing as it were in a purgatory of its own making.
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Surely our country, viewed from the air, will look like a series of writhing, intertwined snakes.
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The police did not believe that she was epileptic, as she had not been writhing on the floor.
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In other words, the baby is writhing in agony during those procedures.
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From then on the whole organisation had withered and writhed and produced less and less effective reports.
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As the victim writhes to death, he is watched by brother officers.
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He spoke about these animals, attractive little creatures—indeed they are—writhing in agony.
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There are other tests, known as writhing tests, in which the purpose is simply to count the number of times an animal writhes in pain before it dies.
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They have torn wealth from the ground, which is now writhing, upturning and subsiding, with houses looking as if they had been out on the spree.
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Prostaglandins require the baby to be brought on through a labour that can go on for hours, and it can be left writhing in agony as a result.
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They are laws which are not like domestic laws, which may stay the same, but inter-act on the changing laws of other countries and are a constantly writhing tangle.
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You will have seen the tight lips, the beady eyes, the sharp questions, the writhing of the victim in the chair—the breath and air of totalitarianism.
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Why is that other writhing in agony?
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Translations of writhe
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acıdan kıvranmak, iki büklüm olmak, kıvranmak…
(se) tordre…
kronkelen…
svíjet se…
vride sig…
menggeliat-geliat…
บิดตัวเพราะเจ็บปวด, งอเพราะเจ็บปวด, บิดเบี้ยวด้วยความเจ็บปวด…
đau quằn quại…
wić się, skręcać się…
meronta-ronta…
sich krümmen…
vri seg, sno seg…
корчитися, звиватися…
корчиться, извиваться…
