writhe
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1. writhe - Noun
2. writhe - Verb
Meaning
To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
To extort; to wring; to wrest.
To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
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I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for awhile. It relaxes me.
It is the hour when the swarm of malevolent dreams Makes sun-browned adolescents writhe upon their pillows.
Mother of quartz, your words writhe into my ear. Renew the light, lewd whisper.
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.
If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal hatred, verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that would shock the heart of a hyena.
You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.