Word Meanings - WRITHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and

Additional info about word: WRITHE

to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. Milton. Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. Dryden. His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. Tennyson. 2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert. The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. Hooker. 3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRITHE)

• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• vex
• irritate
• chagrin
• tease
• harass
• disappoint
• grieve
• annoy
• worry
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fret
• fidget
• writhe

Related words: (words related to WRITHE)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• CALCITRATE
  To kick.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• ANNOYOUS
  Troublesome; annoying. Chaucer.
• ANNOYING
  That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.
• IRRITATE
  To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.
• CHAFEWEED
  The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
• CHAGRIN
  Vexation; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope. Syn. -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• CHAFE
  calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret;
• WRITHE
  to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• ENCHAFE
  To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.