writhe /ˈraɪð/
 翻騰,苦惱(vt.)扭曲,纏繞,翻騰(vi.)蠕動,扭動,翻滾,不安,苦惱


 Writhe, v. i. To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
    After every attempt, he felt that he had failed, and writhed with shame and vexation.   --Macaulay.

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 Writhe v. t. [imp. Writhed p. p. Writhed, Obs. or Poetic Writhen p. pr. & vb. n. Writhing.]
 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.  “With writhing [turning] of a pin.”
 Then Satan first knew pain,
 And writhed him to and fro.   --Milton.
    Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.   --Dryden.
    His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.   --Tennyson.
 2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
    The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed.   --Hooker.
 3. To extort; to wring; to wrest.  [R.]
    The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression.   --Sir W. Scott.


 writhe
      v : to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when
          struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The
          child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
          [syn: wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist]