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# writhed

«writhed» in Mova's school dictionary: **twisted and turned the body, in pain or in a struggle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past form of writhe: writhe, writhes, writhing, writhed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Writhed means twisted and turned the body, in pain or in a struggle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#m1)

2) Writhed can mean wriggled hard to get free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a creature twisting to escape or in pain

### examples

- The caterpillar writhed free of its shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#x1)
- The dragon writhed on the pebbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#x2)
- She writhed in her chair with embarrassment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#x3)
- Nothing for maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/writhed/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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