0 past simple and past participle of writhe --
1 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.
Elizabeth writhed, screamed and begged as the wood was placed beneath her.
I writhed on the floor.
Some writhed in pain on the ground.
In the end, the patient writhed, his chest flayed, arms and legs cut off at the elbows and at the knees.
The caterpillar writhed and struggled to escape, rolling and unrolling itself, and the wasp had difficulty getting hold of it.
All that night he writhed in pain and died the next day.
His neck did not break from the fall, and the crowd of 250 spectators watched as he writhed and slowly suffocated.
Dziekaski writhed and screamed before he stopped moving.
