WRITHE meaning: Twist, squirm in discomfort or pain

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word writhe:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

writhe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
writhe: Merriam-Webster
writhe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
writhe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
writhe: Collins English Dictionary
writhe: Vocabulary.com
writhe: Wordnik
writhe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
writhe: Wiktionary
writhe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
writhe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
writhe: Infoplease Dictionary
writhe: Dictionary.com
writhe: Online Etymology Dictionary
writhe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Writhe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Writhe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
writhe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
writhe: Rhymezone
writhe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
writhe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
writhe: FreeDictionary.org
writhe: Mnemonic Dictionary
writhe: TheFreeDictionary.com
writhe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

writhe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

writhe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

writhe: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Writhe: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
writhe: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

writhe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To twist, wring (something).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To contort (a part of the body).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To extort.
▸ noun:  (rare) A contortion.
▸ noun:  (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot

Similar:

twist, wriggle, squirm, wrestle, worm, wring, wrig, wrick, wrench, wrest, more...

Opposite:

straighten, unwind, uncoil

Types:

squirm, cringe, wince, flinch, cower, shrink, more...

Phrases:

writhe at, writhe slowly, more...

Adjectives:

whole, positive, mortal, dead, last, patient, stomach, sudden, poor, slow, more

Colors:

crimson, vermilion, burgundy, scarlet, maroon, more...