0 past simple and past participle of writhe
1 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.
From then on the whole organisation had withered and writhed and produced less and less effective reports.
Casings wilted like lettuce out of water, as heavy machinery writhed and twisted into grotesque shapes in the blazing inferno.
The injured men writhed and squealed in agony, which seemed to inflame the fury of the police....
With a loud cry he fell back and writhed on the floor, then became quiet and motionless.
Dziekaski writhed and screamed before he stopped moving.
His neck did not break from the fall, and the crowd of 250 spectators watched as he writhed and slowly suffocated.
All that night he writhed in pain and died the next day.
The caterpillar writhed and struggled to escape, rolling and unrolling itself, and the wasp had difficulty getting hold of it.
