0 to make large twisting movements with the body: --
He and four other senators were writhing in the glare of unfavourable publicity.
She was writhing around/about on the ground.
The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
1 to make twisting movements with the body, esp. because you are feeling strong emotion: --
Why is that other writhing in agony?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He spoke about these animals, attractive little creatures—indeed they are—writhing in agony.
As the victim writhes to death, he is watched by brother officers.
