Meaning

(intransitive) To twist one's body with snakelike motions..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
2. (intransitive) To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
3. To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
4. A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

Example Sentences

The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.

[…] around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and hisses and a seething caldron of hideous reptiles, devoid of fear and filled only with hunger and with rage. They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.

"Throw it away, dear, do," she said, as they got into the road; but Jacob squirmed away from her […]

The Dutchman then missed a retaken second spot-kick, before the Trotters hit back when Daniel Sturridge's shot squirmed under Heurelho Gomes.

I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm.

MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know? DORA: Nah, let ’em squirm. Let’s go get some pie.

Word Forms

• squirms
• squirming
• squirmed

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