Converse of object

• make: Another vast concussion made the ground writhe under the flying feet of his mount.

Modifying Another Word

• all: There was glass from broken bottles everywhere and of course the shower pipe went berserk and writhed all over the place.

• sinuously: It liked the feel of Fred as he sinuously writhed on top of it, and sabotaged Shaggy's vocal chords.

Object

• body: On the road in front of me was the writhing body of dying snake.

• maggot: We saw a large bin filled with rotting dead piglets amid a sea of writhing maggots.

• form: For long minutes, moans issued from the writhing forms until all sound and movement ceased.

Modifying Another Word

• about: When my partner moves it in and out too I writhe about in ecstasy!

Preposition: in

• pain: The man writhed in pain, yet his hold on her did not lessen.

• anguish: My companion, a devotee of the baroque and classical idioms, writhed in anguish throughout this feast of late- and post-romantic chromaticism.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Like the panel he'd accessed it was one of the few areas not writhing with fibre-optics or power cabling.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Angela is frequently naked, writhing around in a weak, pathetic state.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: And she's also used to writhing around the stage, so she should be a natural when it comes to pole-dancing.

Preposition: in

• hell: His congregation in Norwich held him in reverence and love; but his Calvinist opponents pictured him writhing in hell.