squirm

/skwurm/US // skwɜrm //UK // (skwɜːm) //

蠕动,蠕变,蠕动的,扭动

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to wriggle or writhe.
- : to feel or display discomfort or distress, as from reproof, embarrassment, pain, etc.: He squirmed under the judge's questioning.

n.名词 noun

verbwiggle, fidget

Forms: squirming

Synonyms

I started to squirm in my chair and Jimbo put his hand back on my shoulder to settle me down.
Even with several judges on her payroll, Mandelbaum was not able to squirm out of the charges.
His relationship with ex-wife Effi Barry is squirm-inducing.
The negotiator added that she told him she “liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.”
Moments like these could cause ticket-buyers to squirm or, perhaps, reflect on their own capacity to overlook and forgive.
He was losing hold of himself, and roaring like a bull and flinging out taunts that made 'em squirm.
She sat down to compose a letter which should make Mr. Robert Ross, alias wretch, squirm in agony.
I was afraid of my life he would clutch at my skirts as he fell or squirm up against me after he was down.
Whereupon Andy smoked relishfully and in silence, and from the tail of his eye watched his audience squirm with impatience.
He tried to withdraw the key, but now Macklin began to squirm worse than ever, and he had hard work to master the fellow.

/skwurm/US // skwɜrm //UK // (skwɜːm) //

蠕动,蠕变,蠕动的,扭动

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to wriggle or writhe.
- : to feel or display discomfort or distress, as from reproof, embarrassment, pain, etc.: He squirmed under the judge's questioning.

n.名词 noun

verbwiggle, fidget

Forms: squirming

Synonyms

I started to squirm in my chair and Jimbo put his hand back on my shoulder to settle me down.
Even with several judges on her payroll, Mandelbaum was not able to squirm out of the charges.
His relationship with ex-wife Effi Barry is squirm-inducing.
The negotiator added that she told him she “liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.”
Moments like these could cause ticket-buyers to squirm or, perhaps, reflect on their own capacity to overlook and forgive.
He was losing hold of himself, and roaring like a bull and flinging out taunts that made 'em squirm.
She sat down to compose a letter which should make Mr. Robert Ross, alias wretch, squirm in agony.
I was afraid of my life he would clutch at my skirts as he fell or squirm up against me after he was down.
Whereupon Andy smoked relishfully and in silence, and from the tail of his eye watched his audience squirm with impatience.
He tried to withdraw the key, but now Macklin began to squirm worse than ever, and he had hard work to master the fellow.