Meaning

Squirming..

Definitions by Sense

1. Squirming.
2. Covered or filled (with something squirming).

Example Sentences

But a fish-market, even at Rialto […] is only a fish-market after all: it is wet and slimy under foot, and the innumerable gigantic eels, writhing everywhere, set the soul asquirm, and soon-sated curiosity slides willingly away.

[…] he sat with his trousers rolled up to the knees and his blue-white city toes asquirm in the cleanest muck he’d ever felt.

From where they sat on the rowing thwarts, they made blind passes with their herring rakes, bringing them up with silver asquirm on each needle-sharp tooth.

[…] this child, unlike the first, was easily stirred to rages. The slightest discomfort set her asquirm […]

an aquarium all asquirm with trout and gold fish

The little dancing floor in the center of the dining room suddenly was asquirm with posturing figures in mantillas and silks and boleros.

[…] such supplies as did arrive were as often as not scarcely fit to eat, the bread moldy, the biscuit asquirm with weevils, the butter rancid […]

If, then, your idea is large and sweeping, asquirm with plots sub and counter […]

Word Forms

• more asquirm
• most asquirm

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When Should You Use Asquirm?

Use asquirm when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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