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# writhe

«writhe» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to twist and turn the body, often in pain** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (writhes, writhing, writhed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To writhe is to twist and turn the body, often in pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#m1)

2) To writhe can mean to wriggle hard to get free of a hold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a creature or person twisting in pain or struggling

### examples

- My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. (Writings PSA.55.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#x1)
- The worm writhed on the hook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#x2)
- He writhed in pain on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#x3)
- The snake writhed on the dry stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#x4)
- Nothing for maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [I writhe in pain!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.118/)
- [My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.896/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «writhe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/writhe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.