Usually means: Twists, squirms in pain, discomfort.
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  2. writhes: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. writhes: Wordnik
  5. writhes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. writhes: Wiktionary
  7. writhes: Dictionary.com
  8. writhes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. writhes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (writhe)

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
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