'Writhing' definitions:

Definition of 'writhing'

adjective

Moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms" [syn: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing]

From: GCIDE

Writhe \Writhe\, v. t. [imp. Writhed; p. p. Writhed, Obs. or Poetic Writhen; p. pr. & vb. n. Writhing.] [OE. writhen, AS. wr[imac]?an to twist; akin to OHG. r[imac]dan, Icel. r[imac]?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. [1913 Webster]
Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert. [1913 Webster]
The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.] [1913 Webster]
The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]