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writhen

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writh·en  (rn)
v. Archaic
A past participle of writhe.
adj.
Twisted; contorted.
Writhen something arranged in the form of coils, having folds or windings, 1542.
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Adj.1.writhen - twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"- Walter scott
contorted, writhed
crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"


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He stalked stiff-legged, with a snarl writhen on his lips, and with recurrent waves of hair- bristling along his back and up his shoulders and neck.
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