HOW TO PRONOUNCE
writhed
/ɹɪθd/
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What does writhed mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of writhe
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪθd/
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The moonlit stream was a python, silver, sinuous, vast, That writhed on a shroud of velvet--well, it was done at last.
As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.
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As he ran he jerked his hands up and down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most extraordinary contortions.
From a plain brass bowl upon the corner of the huge table smoke writhed aloft and at times partially obscured that dreadful face.
He writhed himself quite off his stool in the excitement of his feelings, and, being off, began to make arrangements for going home.