writhe
verb (used without object)
to twist the body about or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, uncontrolled passion, etc.
have writhed
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present perfectof writhe.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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Anyone in the habit of agonising over England would have writhed anew at the first-half spectacle.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2010
Slavery has tortured American historians for generations: slavery theses and revisions of them have writhed through the stream of historiography for 150 years or longer.
From Time Magazine Archive
If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
The murky despair that has come over me—that I have writhed and struggled in, as in the clutches of some fiend!
From Love's Pilgrimage by Upton Sinclair
I had said nothing to induce this inquiry, but I suppose I must have writhed involuntarily.
From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant
