0 to make large twisting movements with the body:
The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
She was writhing around/about on the ground.
He and four other senators were writhing in the glare of unfavourable publicity.
1 to make twisting movements with the body, esp. because you are feeling strong emotion:
The writhing serpent passing through this item is clearly not par t of the static ceremonial bar.
We see a world writhing, as it were, in a purgatory of its own making.
We see the world writhing as it were in a purgatory of its own making.
Surely our country, viewed from the air, will look like a series of writhing, intertwined snakes.
The police did not believe that she was epileptic, as she had not been writhing on the floor.
In other words, the baby is writhing in agony during those procedures.
From then on the whole organisation had withered and writhed and produced less and less effective reports.
As the victim writhes to death, he is watched by brother officers.
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