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writhes
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What does writhes mean?
noun
- plural of writhe
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of writhe
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"The sea rushes over the earth, for the Midgard-serpent writhes in giant rage, and seeks to gain the land."
Perhaps a woman writhes in pain And listens -- listens for the train!
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For two or three seconds the insect writhes in convulsions and then falls on its side, motionless throughout, save in the ovipositor and the antennae.
To say this is easy, but in times of trial, when the conscience writhes in the presence of God, it is not so easy to do.
It is the self that raises the dust--the self that wants, and strains to get its own way, and turns and twists and writhes if it does not get its own way.