Reverse Dictionary: WRITHE

ADJECTIVES
► EELY resembling an eel in movement; wriggling, writhing → 1871

NOUNS
► SPRUNTING a twitching, a writhing; a moving convulsively → 1647 obs.

VERBS
► CRANGLE to twist, to writhe, to wriggle → 1608
► CURL to writhe, to twist about → 1637 obs.
► GASHLE to distort, to writhe → 1825 Sc.
► REATH to writhe → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REEVE to writhe → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RENZIE to writhe with pain → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRUGGLE to contend, struggle; to writhe with more or less force → 1530 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TARVE ► TURVE to struggle; to writhe → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TERVEE ► TERVY to struggle; to writhe → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TO-WRITHE to twist or wrench about; to twist or writhe about → c1000 obs.
► TWANGLE to writhe from pain → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWINE to contort the body; to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm → 1666 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TWINGLE to twist, to twine, to wriggle, to writhe → 1647
► WAMBLE of persons and animals: to roll about, to wriggle, to writhe, to slither, to wallow → 1733 Sc. 
► WAMBLE LIKE AN EEL IN THE WATER to wriggle and writhe → 1993 Sc.
► WAMPLE to wriggle; to writhe → 1825 Sc.
► WRIG to wriggle, to writhe → 1854 Eng. dial. (Bk.)