Withed vs Writhed - What's the difference?
withed | writhed |
(withe)
A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
* 1997': Perhaps indifferent to their social Rejection, he sets to work separating his Tree into Poles, Sticks, and '''Withes , and placing them wherever in the Structures of Dam or Lodge he feels they need to go. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
(nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.
To bind with s.
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To beat with s.
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(writhe)
To twist, to wring (something).
To contort (a part of the body).
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*:Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
As verbs the difference between withed and writhed
is that withed is past tense of withe while writhed is past tense of writhe.withed
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(head)withe
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(en noun)Verb
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*writhed
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(head)writhe
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Everton 0-2 Liverpool, passage=The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.}} (Webster 1913)