writhe
verb (used without object)
to twist the body about or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, uncontrolled passion, etc.
has writhed
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present perfectof writhe (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Ever since the campaign to "humanize" him began two months ago, President Hoover has writhed and winced at intimate, inconsequential little stories about himself in the public prints.
From Time Magazine Archive
He hated wrong and oppression everywhere, and many a man whose fraudulent conduct was undergoing review in a court of justice has writhed under his terrific indignation and rebukes.
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John George Nicolay
He hated wrong and oppression everywhere; and many a man whose fraudulent conduct was undergoing review in a court of justice has writhed under his terrific indignation and rebukes.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various
You see how it has writhed and twisted,—how, meeting the barrier in one spot, it has labored and worked, stem and branch, towards the clear skies at last.
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden
