Sekirov Dictionary

writhe

/ɹaɪð/

verb 4
noun 2
forms 5

verb4

To twist, wring (something).
•
To contort (a part of the body).
- Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer. — 1603
To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
To extort.

noun2

(rare) A contortion.
The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot

forms

writhed · wrothe · writhen · writhing · writhes

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