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FromMiddle Englishwrithen, fromOld Englishwrīþan, fromProto-West Germanic*wrīþan, fromProto-Germanic*wrīþaną(“to weave, twist, turn”), fromProto-Indo-European*wreyt-(“to twist, writhe”). Cognate withMiddle Dutchwriten(“to turn, twist”), dialectalGermanreiden(“to turn, twist, lace”),Danishvride(“to twist”),Swedishvrida(“to turn, twist, wind”),Frenchrider(“to wrinkle, furrow, ruffle”,(< Germanic)). Compare alsoLithuanianriēsti(“to unbend, wind, roll”).

writhe (third-person singular simple presentwrithes,present participlewrithing,simple pastwrithedorwrothe,past participlewrithedorwrithen)

(transitive) Totwist,wring (something).
(transitive) Tocontort (a part of the body).
- 1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:
  Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome towryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
- 1906 August,Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, inPoems, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., published October 1906,→OCLC, part 2, stanza IV,pages50–51:
  She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / Shewrithed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
(intransitive) Totwistbodily; tocontort one's self; to be distorted.
- 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, inBBC Sport:
  The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarezwrithed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
(transitive) Toextort.