Need another word that means the same as “writhe”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “writhe” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Writhe” are: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, thrash, flounder, flail, toss, toss and turn, twitch, twist and turn, roll, jiggle, wiggle, jerk, jolt
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “writhe” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| flail | Move like a flail thresh about. He escorted them flailing their shoulders with his cane. |
| flounder | Walk with great difficulty. She is floundering in college. |
| jiggle | Move about quickly from side to side or up and down. The car jiggled on its springs. |
| jolt | Push or shake (someone or something) abruptly and roughly. The train jolted into motion. |
| roll | Pronounce with a roll of the phoneme r. The buffalo rolled in the dust. |
| squirm | Wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort. He looked uncomfortable and squirmed in his chair. |
| thrash | Give a thrashing to beat hard. The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed. |
| toss | Throw or toss with a light motion. Toss the pasta in the sauce. |
| toss and turn | Lightly throw to see which side comes up. |
| twist | Twist or pull violently or suddenly especially so as to remove something from that to which it is attached or from where it originates. Beetroot can be stored once the leaves have been twisted off. |
| twist and turn | Form into twists. |
| twitch | Use a twitch to subdue a horse. Her lips twitched and her eyelids fluttered. |
| wiggle | Move to and fro. Vi wiggled her toes. |
| worm | Treat an animal with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms. You wormed your way into their lives. |
| wrestle | Move or manipulate (something) with difficulty. She wrestled the keys out of the ignition. |
| wriggle | Avoid (something) by devious means. She wriggled her bare brown toes. |
| bent | Sharply curved or having an angle. Bent on going to the theater. |
| braid | Decorate with braids or ribbons. Their garments were braided with silk. |
| contort | Twist or bend out of the normal shape. Her face contorted with anger. |
| contortion | A tortuous and twisted shape or position. The acrobat performed incredible contortions. |
| distort | Form into a spiral shape. Many factors can distort the results. |
| entwine | Wind or twist together; interweave. The nations histories were closely entwined. |
| garble | A garbled account or transmission. Upon winning a race a driver spews out a litany of commercial garble. |
| grapple | Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available. He grappled the young man around the throat. |
| interlace | Spin,wind, or twist together. Jane interlaced her fingers to form a cup. |
| joggle | Fasten or join with a joggle. The lurch and joggle of the car. |
| kink | Form a curl curve or kink. There are still a few kinks to iron out. |
| meandering | Following a winding course. He has a penchant for obscure verbal meanderings. |
| plait | Weave into plaits. She wore her dark hair in plaits. |
| skew | Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line askew crooked. The picture was skew. |
| slew | Of an electronic device undergo slewing. I was assaulted by the thump and slew of the van. |
| slug | A line of type in Linotype printing. The reactor uses embedded slugs of uranium. |
| strife | Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict. Decades of civil strife. |
| torsion | (in a gastropod mollusc) the spontaneous twisting of the visceral hump through 180° during larval development. |
| turn | A place where a road meets or branches off another a turning. They were approaching the turn. |
| tweak | Improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it. An affectionate tweak. |
| twist | Form into twists. With a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room. |
| wiggle | A wiggling movement. A slight wiggle of the hips. |
| worm | Used in names of other animals that resemble worms in some way e g slow worm shipworm. I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth. |
| wrench | Turn something especially a nut or bolt with a wrench. Wrench a window off its hinges. |
| wrest | Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically. They wanted people to wrest control of their lives from impersonal bureaucracies. |
| wrestle | Struggle with a difficulty or problem. She wrestled the keys out of the ignition. |
| wrestling | The sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules. We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully. |
| wriggle | A wriggling movement. She wriggled her bare brown toes. |
| wry | Bent to one side. With a wry Scottish wit. |
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