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• v  to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• s  moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

• A spa treatment in Israel involves a writhing braid of live snakes.
• Another 150 or more lay writhing in the havoc, grotesquely scorched.
• Overall, DBS reduces 50% to 60% of the symptoms that characterize Parkinson's disease, including tremors, stiffness, slowness, gait problems and uncontrollable writhing, allowing .

• writhe
• wrestle
• wriggle
• worm
• squirm
• twist
• wiggly
• wriggling
• wriggly

News & Articles

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• Rape suspect mentally fit for trial
  A man accused of trying to rape a woman studying inside a Redwood City motel more than two years ago is mentally fit to stand trial on sexual assault charges, according to two court-appointed doctors who concluded he was faking and exaggerating his symptoms which have included post-traumatic stress disorder, writhing in court due to phantom pain and hearing voices.
  June 5, 2013 - San Mateo Daily Journal

Quotes

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• Boris Johnson in Irish Times
  These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rear ends round our corners for the final time,he has said.
• Joe Maddon in MLB.com
  The way he's writhing on the ground, I was really concerned about it,Maddon said. "I've got like 500 feet to run ,and I'm not really used to that. But fortunately Ron Porterfield is very fast, so he got to him in good shape. By the time he...
• Victoria Beckham in Post Chronicle
  Victoria tells the London Mirror: "We were both so happy with the pictures." "We've ordered some of those shots to have blown up. David especially likes the one of me writhing on the bonnet [car hood]."