Usually means: Twisting, squirming movements; often agonized.
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  1. writhing: Merriam-Webster
  2. writhing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. writhing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Writhing, writhing: Wordnik
  5. writhing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. writhing: Wiktionary
  7. writhing: Dictionary.com
  8. writhing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Writhing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. writhing: Rhymezone
  11. Writhing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. writhing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. writhing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. writhing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. writhing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. writhing: Legal dictionary

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  1. writhing: Idioms

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  1. Writhing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See writhe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (writhing)

adjective:  Bended in twisting struggle.
noun:  A twisting struggle.

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