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writhen

/rith-uhn/US // ˈrɪð ən //UK // (ˈrɪðən) archaic, or poetic //

著作,撰写,写作,撰文

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : twisted.

Examples

  • He gazed down on her woe-writhen face, with its closed eyes that would not meet his own.

  • Methought his detestable features at length enlarged, moved, and were writhen in mockery and scorn.

  • She turned up to him her pitiful, writhen face, white as parchment.

  • Laying hold of a gnarled root that reached down like a writhen arm, he drew himself noiselessly up the slope.

  • With writhen trunks and stiff contorted limbs they take the storm and flying scud as poppies take the sun.