writhe
- Verb. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
- Verb. To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
- Verb. To extort; to wring; to wrest.
- Verb. (intransitive) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony (''also figuratively'').
- Noun. (context, knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.
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