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writhen
[ rith-uhn ]
adjective
, Archaic.
- twisted.
writhen
/ ˈrɪðən /
adjective
- twisted; distorted
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Example Sentences
He gazed down on her woe-writhen face, with its closed eyes that would not meet his own.
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Methought his detestable features at length enlarged, moved, and were writhen in mockery and scorn.
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She turned up to him her pitiful, writhen face, white as parchment.
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Laying hold of a gnarled root that reached down like a writhen arm, he drew himself noiselessly up the slope.
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With writhen trunks and stiff contorted limbs they take the storm and flying scud as poppies take the sun.
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