All 5 Uses of
writhe
in
Catch-22
- He began writhing convulsively.†
Chpt 12 *
- He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.†
Chpt 14
- 'They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony or stupefied with morphine, don't they?†
Chpt 18
- 'Taste it,' Milo urged, following Yossarian's writhing face around with the banana insistently.†
Chpt 22
- All at once he realized — though the writhing turbulence beneath him had not diminished one whit — that she was no longer grappling with him, recognized with a quiver that she was not fighting him but heaving her pelvis up against him remorselessly in the primal, powerful, rhapsodic instinctual rhythm of erotic ardor and abandonment.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(writhe) to move in a twisting or contorted motion -- often of a person when struggling or in pain