Both Uses
writhe
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- But Ira had the screams of dying men in his head now; his hands had held that bayonet with a struggling, writhing human impaled on it.†
Chpt 4. *writhing = moving in a twisting or contorted motion
- They would tread on the head, and see whether it writhed.†
Chpt 11.writhed = moved in a twisting or contorted motion
Definitions:
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(1)
(writhe) to move in a twisting or contorted motion -- often of a person when struggling or in pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)