0 present 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.
Surely our country, viewed from the air, will look like a series of writhing, intertwined snakes.
We see the world writhing as it were in a purgatory of its own making.
We see a world writhing, as it were, in a purgatory of its own making.
I think he has given them an impossible task, under which they are now writhing in misery.
The vision of that classroom full of children with only one foot writhing around on the floor has never left me.
With much writhing and anguish, he has given birth to that fine new beast "the principal council".
It is still there, writhing on the floor.
He has been unable to deny it, despite his wriggling and writhing.
