Seeing all the worms wriggling on the corpse made me squirm all over.
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Squirm
/skwɜːm/
Synonyms for "squirm" (94 found)
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Don't squirm, the doctor told patient before sticking a scary-looking needle into his arm.
Source: tatoeba (2652715)
A good translator is one who, akin to a worm, can squirm with delight around in the author's brain mass, and leave through the tongue to have its taste impressions confirmed, and then leave well-formed traces on paper line after line, sheet after sheet, until the last page is done — and he once again returns to his former self, and as a member of the smallest and least respected low-salary group, signs up yet again to exert his effort for God's representative on earth, the publishers.
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Yanni managed to squirm out of Skura's grip.
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