Writhe is valid Scrabble Word

Is writhe a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is writhe valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for WRITHE in dictionary:

VERB:

to squirm or twist in pain
make twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body
respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to (an intense or unpleasant feeling or thought)
twist or squirm in or as if in pain
To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
To extort; to wring; to wrest.
To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

NOUN:

act or an instance of writhing

Words related to WRITHE

writhed14 writhen13 writher13 writhers14 writhes13 writhing15 writhings16

Words that contain WRITHE

writhed14 writhen13 writher13 writhes13 writhers14

How to use WRITHE in a sentence

She did not even writhe upon it, but lay motionless, cut down, dumb with anguish.
The next night I was woke by a slap which shook the Neva from stem to stern, and made her stagger and writhe like a live thing struck across the loins.
Joseph accompanied us, and wrote letters home, filled with gossip which I knew, or hoped, would make Margaret writhe.
It lay on the table in ringlets of gold, which seemed to writhe, as if they too were suffering.
Again he advanced, but Gushtasp dodged round him, and continued driving arrows into him to the extent of forty, which subdued his strength, and made him writhe in agony.
Virginia is about to be shaken by an earthquake, to writhe under intestine wars, and it may be necessary for you to take sides.
Now it was her turn to writhe with jealousy, and to writhe in vain.
By the tricks I had long since learned in the jacket, I managed to writhe myself across the floor an inch at a time until the edge of the sole of my right shoe touched the door.
He had a reply ready for every other opening in the English tongue, but now he could writhe only.
You writhe your lips, you close your ears! Dear me! Such conduct tries me.

Around him writhe the victims of ignorance and the criminals of conventional cruelty.
There was no one in the world who possessed the power to humble him as did Dick, who with a few scorching words could make him writhe in impotent fury.
At last that portion of the rope which lay in the garden began to jerk and writhe vigorously.
A faint shout came from on high, and once more the rope began to writhe.
Bide thy time till he emerges from the spell, then make him writhe.
He remembered the writhe with which the animal had doubled himself, and the side spring he had made.
But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast.
Lungs, belly, abdomen wide distended, in every physical agony, his body could but writhe, to add to the torture of his seat as they dragged down on his legs.
The chief excellence of the picture is in the ranks of the condemned, who writhe and rebel against their agonies.
I writhe before this letter, like a thread in the fire.
Dade was slowly recovering, under the rather heroic treatment of watching his successor writhe and exult by turns, as the mood of the maiden might decree.
At that spot in the inky landscape where a tall and twisted tree seems to writhe as if it had a soul, we begin suddenly to descend, our feet plunging forward.
Presently the order is given to move off, and the snake begins to writhe.
The chain of Prometheus is hanging yet upon his rock, and weaker limbs writhe daily in its rusty links.
How many innocent always perish with one guilty! and writhe longer! Unhappy children! I shall weep for you elsewhere.
Then he turned slowly over on his side and lay still, a moment or two, after which he began to writhe violently.
He was assailed by torments reserved for those who, having long made others writhe without caring that they suffered, hear the swish of the lash over their own heads.
At the same time his fellows came about us, while on the farther bank Luke helped his wife writhe up through the waterside vines, and with her disappeared.
Lessing said of grief in sculpture that it may writhe but it must not scream.

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