writhle
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Etymology edit
writhe + -le (frequentative suffix)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
writhle (third-person singular simple present writhles, present participle writhling, simple past and past participle writhled)
- (obsolete) to wrinkle, to shrink
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her writhled skin, as rough as Maple rind