writhe

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To twist, wring (something).
 * 2)  To contort (a part of the body).
 * 3)  To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
 * 4)  To extort.
 * 1)  To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
 * 2)  To extort.
 * 1)  To extort.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: гърча се, превивам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 使缠绕
 * Danish: vride sig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: tordiĝi
 * Finnish: vääntelehtiä tuskissaan
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Ingrian: vingertää
 * Irish: bí ag lúbarnaíl
 * Italian: contorcersi
 * Maori: takaokeoke, takaoio, takaoraora, takaoriori, hīkaikai, okeoke, parawhetawheta, takawheta, takawhetawheta, tāwheta, kowheta, āuta, kapekapetā, karapetapetau, karawheta, kaunoni, kōiriiri
 * Occitan: tortilhar, torcir,
 * Ottoman Turkish: بالقلامق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: retorcer-se, contorcer-se
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: svijati se, previjati se
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ко́рчитися

Noun

 * 1)  A contortion.
 * 2)  The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot