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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: writhe
geliang, geliat, geliut
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: writhed
writhed
adj : twisted (especially as in pain or struggle);
“his mad
contorted smile”;
“writhed lips”;
“my writhen
features”- Walter scott [syn:
contorted,
writhen]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Writhed
Writhe
\Writhe\, v. t. [imp.
Writhed; p. p.
Writhed, Obs. or
Poetic
Writhen; p. pr. & vb. n.
Writhing.] [OE. writhen,
AS. wr[=i]?an to twist; akin to OHG. r[=i]dan, Icel. r[=i]?a,
Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf.
Wreathe,
Wrest,
Wroth.]
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1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to
distort; to wring. ``With writhing [turning] of a pin.''
--Chaucer.
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Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro. --Milton.
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Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.
--Dryden.
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His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.
--Tennyson.
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2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
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The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part
of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are
writhed. --Hooker.
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3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.]
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The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of
their sovereign in writhing money from them by every
species of oppression. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Writhe
\Writhe\, v. t. [imp.
Writhed; p. p.
Writhed, Obs. or
Poetic
Writhen; p. pr. & vb. n.
Writhing.] [OE. writhen,
AS. wr[=i]?an to twist; akin to OHG. r[=i]dan, Icel. r[=i]?a,
Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf.
Wreathe,
Wrest,
Wroth.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to
distort; to wring. ``With writhing [turning] of a pin.''
--Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro. --Milton.
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Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.
--Dryden.
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His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.
--Tennyson.
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2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
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The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part
of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are
writhed. --Hooker.
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3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.]
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The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of
their sovereign in writhing money from them by every
species of oppression. --Sir W.
Scott.
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