Usually means: Twisting and turning with movement.
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  1. wriggling: Merriam-Webster
  2. wriggling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wriggling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wriggling, wriggling: Wordnik
  5. wriggling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wriggling: Wiktionary
  7. wriggling: Dictionary.com
  8. wriggling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wriggling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wriggling: Rhymezone
  11. Wriggling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. wriggling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. wriggling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. wriggling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. wriggling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wriggling: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wriggling)

▸ noun:  The act of one who wriggles.

Similar:
squirming, wiggly, writhing, twisting, moving, fidget, wriggle room, crawling, wangle, swivel, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless, stationary, immobile

Types:
squirming, writhing, wiggling, twisting, contorting, flailing, thrashing, convulsing, jiggling, more...

Phrases:
wriggling out, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, mere, fine, slight, like, frantic, violent, small, peculiar, black

Colors:
    lime,     chartreuse,     neon yellow,     vivid orange,     bright turquoise, more...

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Similar:
squirming, wiggly, writhing, twisting, moving, fidget, wriggle room, crawling, wangle, swivel, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless, stationary, immobile

Types:
squirming, writhing, wiggling, twisting, contorting, flailing, thrashing, convulsing, jiggling, more...

Phrases:
wriggling out, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, mere, fine, slight, like, frantic, violent, small, peculiar, black

Colors:
    lime,     chartreuse,     neon yellow,     vivid orange,     bright turquoise, more...



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