writhe

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

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