Writhe

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

(2): ( v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.

(3): ( v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.

(4): ( v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.

King James Dictionary [2]

Writhe,

1. To twist to distort.

Her mouth she writhd.

2. To twist with violence as, to writhe the body. 3. To wrest to distort to torture as, to writhe words.

Writhe, To twist to be distorted as, to writhe with agony.

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