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Meanings of wriggle in English

Catalan
remenada

The act of wiggling.

remenada
Portuguese
estrebuchar
Catalan
trenar
Spanish
retorcer

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

estrebuchar
Usage of wriggle in English
1
At this stage, understanding and political wriggle room are in short supply.
The Irish Times
2
How to help: Do not attempt to wriggle out of your responsibilities.
The Irish Times
3
The children wriggle their way deeper under the wreckage, out of sight.
Night of knives
4
They wriggle their way to a preordained position on a nine-by-nine grid.
Number9Dream
5
Eels died before they were able to wriggle out of the water.
The Irish Times
6
There is now no wriggle room for media organisations to block this.
The Guardian
7
Look, wife, that one, who wriggles but can only wriggle so far?
Vlad. The Last Confession
8
Randy himself thrashed wildly in his mother's arms, trying to wriggle free.
The god project
9
That made Bat grunt and grumble and wriggle; and finally uncover, too.
Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
10
This time he would not be able to wriggle off the hook.
Depths
11
I wriggle my hands in their binds, but I can't free them.
The Lying Game
12
But it left them with very little wriggle room in the group.
The Guardian
13
The opening was narrow, but Tim thought he could wriggle through it.
Jurassic Park
14
He lifted his body and let the girl wriggle from under him.
A beautiful place to die
15
Then a twist and a wriggle, and he was on his way.
Neverwhere
16
The four of them stood, leaving Geneviève to wriggle on the floor.
Anno Dracula
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Translations for wriggle
Wriggle through the time
Wriggle across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common