writhing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English writhyng; equivalent to writhe + -ing.
Adjective
[edit]writhing (not comparable)
- Bended in twisting struggle.
Translations
[edit]Bended in twisting struggle
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Verb
[edit]writhing
- present participle and gerund of writhe
Noun
[edit]writhing (plural writhings)
- A twisting struggle.
- 2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times[1]:
- But a video, taken from above, projects these writhings as if she were flying at top speed in a tunnel above traffic that’s whooshing past in the opposite direction.
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