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 →

2) To writhe can mean to wriggle hard to get free of a hold. tree →

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 →
• The worm writhed on the hook. tree →
• He writhed in pain on the floor. tree →
• The snake writhed on the dry stones. tree →
• Nothing for maths. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• I writhe in pain!
• My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «writhe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.