Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Writhed |
WrithedAdjective1. Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"- Walter scott. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "writhed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: WrithedSynonyms: contorted (adj), writhen (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Writhed |
| English words defined with "writhed": squirm ♦ twist ♦ worm, wrestle, wriggle. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "The long detaching rings again writhed in mid-air, and softly descended as he thundered past" / E.C. Dalton ; R. Caton Woodville. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A stinging and stifling smoke amid which writhed, with dull and feeble groans, the wounded and the dying. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And again his eyes reached toward her voice and his lips writhed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Writhed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Writhed" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 94.44% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 5.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "writhed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | krümmte sich, gekrümmt (bent, circumflex, curved, flexuose, hooky, humped). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ithedwray vred sig. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Writhed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wraithe, wrathe, wrethe, wrigthe, writed, wroted, wrythe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: dither, whited, whiter, withed, wither, writhe. | |
-2 letters: hider, hired, ither, their, third, threw, tired, tried, twier, weird, white, wider, width, wired, wited, withe, wried, write. | |
-3 letters: diet, dire, dirt, dite, drew, edit, heir, herd, hide, hied, hire, ired, ride, rite, thew, thir, tide, tied, tier, tire, weir, wert, whet, whid, whir, whit, wide. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: withdrew, withered. | |
+2 letters: dishwater, dowitcher, handwrite, swithered. | |
+3 letters: dishwaters, dowitchers, handwrites, headwaiter, hitherward, outwhirled, whitebeard, whiteboard, withholder. | |
+4 letters: birdwatcher, breadthwise, handwritten, headwaiters, stewardship, thitherward, underweight, weatherized, whitebeards, whiteboards, whitherward, withholders. | |
+5 letters: birdwatchers, creditworthy, multiwarhead, overweighted, overwithheld, overwithhold, stewardships, thitherwards, underweights, withdrawable, wordsmithery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 72 69 74 68 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. - .... . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W r i t h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0072 0069 0074 0068 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57847586747170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
