Seeing all the worms wriggling on the corpse made me squirm all over.
Source: tatoeba (2396345)
Squirm
//skwɜːm//
Synonyms for "squirm" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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Translations
69 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στρεφογυρίζω verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Breton
1 entries- tortigellañ verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Bulgarian
3 entries- гърча се verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- гърча се verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- отбягвам verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
Catalan
2 entries- recaragolar-se verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- serpentejar verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Dutch
4 entries- ontwijken verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
- wriemelen verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- wriemelen verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- wringen verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Esperanto
1 entries- svingiĝi verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Finnish
4 entries- kiemurrella verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- kiemurrella verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- kiemurrella verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
- vääntelehtiä verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
French
4 entries- gigoter verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- louvoyer verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
- remuer verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- se tortiller verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
German
3 entries- sich winden verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- sich winden verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- sich winden verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
Greek
1 entries- στριφογυρίζω verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Hungarian
4 entries- feszeng verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- fészkelődik verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- izeg-mozog verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- tekereg verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Ingrian
1 entries- vingertää verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Japanese
1 entries- 蠢く verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Māori
4 entries- karapetapetau verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- kōiriiri verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- takaokeoke verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- takaokeoke verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
Norwegian
3 entries- vri seg verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- vri seg verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- vri seg unna verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بالقلامق verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Polish
3 entries- wić się verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- wprawić w zakłopotanie verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- wywinąć się verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
Portuguese
4 entries- contorcer verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- contorcer verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- ondear verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- ondular verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Russian
4 entries- извива́ться verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- изгиба́ться verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- ко́рчиться verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- поёживаться verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- meškoljiti verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- migoljiti verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Spanish
4 entries- avergonzarse verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- escabullirse verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
- retorcerse verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- serpentear verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Swedish
1 entries- skruva (sig) verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
Tamil
1 entries- நெளி verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Thai
1 entries- ดิ้น verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́тися verb (twist one’s body with snakelike motion)
- ко́рчитися verb (twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
- ухили́тися verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
- ухиля́тися verb (to evade a question, an interviewer etc.)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
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.
Source: tatoeba (3026222)
Yanni managed to squirm out of Skura's grip.
Source: tatoeba (9139851)
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