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writhing

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1. writhing - Noun

2. writhing - Adjective

3. writhing - Verb

5. writhing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Writhe

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. Lewis Carroll

It wept by the waters of Babylon, And when all men were a loss, It screeched in writhing agony, And it hung bleeding from the Cross. It died in Rome by lion and sword, And in defiant cruel array, When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus' Along the Appian Way. Bobby Sands

[As] the tide of white domination of the land mass of Asia and Africa recedes, there lies exposed to view a procession of shattered cultures, disintegrated societies, and a writhing sweep of more aggressive, irrational religion than the world has known for centuries. Richard Wright

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph. James Larkin

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. Thomas Harris

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. Rabindranath Tagore

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