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Definition of squirm in English: squirmverb skwəːmskwərm [no object]1Wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort. he looked uncomfortable and squirmed in his chair Example sentencesExamples - Johnny was refusing to eat his Cheerios and was squirming in his chair as his mother tried to feed him.
- The Wolf girl was grunting and squirming, her body wiggling from side to side.
- They were lying utterly still or squirming in discomfort, some cradling injured arms.
- His body squirmed and screamed like it was too fragile for his heavy soul.
- The child wriggled and squirmed, trying to pull himself out of their grasp.
- I squirmed on the uncomfortable seat, trying to work some feeling back into my numb tailbone.
- Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining.
- He gently took out a small bundle that began to squirm.
- As if sensing his discomfort, the baby squirmed with an alarming vitality.
- She tried to pick him up but he was squirming and twisting to lick her face so much that she had to set him down.
- Noelle didn't squirm or fidget, but she appeared uncomfortable.
- I lay there on the wood floors of my kitchen, squirming, as my body wanted to run itself against a wall.
- I shouted, squirming and twisting my arm, trying to get it out of his grip.
- She paused and studied him for a long moment until he finally squirmed in discomfort.
- He squirmed and wriggled, ignoring the pain I know he must be feeling.
- A technician discovered the dead rodent and believes it had squirmed into the body of the PC to keep warm.
- Helen grasped the young cat tightly in her arms, where it began to squirm nervously.
- Befuddled by heat and sleep, she'd twist and squirm to pull on her modesty bestowing chador and headscarf.
- Peering out past the bank, I could see our three shapes in the water, twisting and squirming in the current.
- I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
Synonyms wriggle, wiggle, writhe, twist, slide, slither, turn, shift, fidget, jiggle, twitch, thresh, flounder, flail, toss and turn agonize - 1.1 Show or feel embarrassment or shame.
he squirmed as he recalled the phrases he had used Example sentencesExamples - Now it was Gabe's turn to squirm and blush as crimson as roses.
- Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
- This site will make your boss squirm as it lets you compare your salary with others in similar jobs as well as your colleagues.
- Making an audience squirm at provocative sex has nothing necessarily to do with encouraging thought.
- But if going into stores that carry smaller sizes truly makes her squirm, don't beg her to go in.
- And yet he goes and lumbers his latest outfit with a name to make you wince and squirm: Incognico.
- Admit it - deep down inside us plods patronisingly known as ‘the public’ love to see the rich and famous squirm.
- Watching a Mayo team squirm in defeat is indeed a welcome sight.
- They went quite well, she blushed, and then squirmed as she was asked what ‘quite well’ actually meant.
- The first debate question ever posed to fledgling presidential candidate Wesley Clark was one that might have made a practiced politician squirm.
- Commenting on the report, Coun Stoddard said: ‘There are things in here which I know would make people in certain areas of my ward squirm.’
- Frankie Dettori squirms when recalling the moment his credibility as a top class jockey was brought into question.
- For various practical and cultural reasons, religion makes the media squirm more than any other subject.
- The mistreatment of child orphans, the poor and the women in this era is viscerally staged, making the audience squirm agonizingly in their seats.
- I'll not mention the fact that I could actually hear the audience squirm with every failed delivery.
- Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public.
- This was very funny stuff, much of it excruciatingly so - straight out of the theatre of embarrassment - making viewers squirm as well as laugh.
- From where Solomon stood, he could see several of the folk squirm in response to having lost all excretory control.
- Christy gave a guilty squirm and immediately put her mind in full reverse, attempting to block out the next few sentences.
- This wasn't supposed to happen - the plan was to make the boss squirm as he continued to act straight.
Synonyms wince, blush, flush, go red
noun skwəːmskwərm A wriggling movement. the toddler gave a sudden squirm Example sentencesExamples - Cerise smiles that annoying smile, doing the coy squirm.
- The average foreigner is a tortured soul, trying desperately to discern any logic in the squirms and squiggles of an Indian road map.
- The unconscious girl gave a slight squirm in the warmth of Kashiro's embrace.
- Okay, so the album's not a step forward so much as a squirm in quicksand.
- The other twin let out another squeal followed by a squirm.
- This music is slightly denser, though, and the little squirms of static that bubble up now and then help to unsettle the music even more.
- His first reaction was a squirm of embarrassment.
- The letter gives rise to a pleasurable squirm, somewhere deep in my stomach.
- At its base a short squirm and section of stooping passage brings one to the first of the major features of the cave, the Canal.
- Too many film-makers want the scream of shock at a big moment but forget that the real pleasure is the squirms and screams that come in the build up.
- Still, even while driving in and out of Irish potholes, you'll hear no squeak or feel no squirm from the structure or fittings.
- Tanj did her best to shrug, a motion that came out as a squirm more than anything.
- She caught his shocked look and tried to hide a squirm.
- Li'l Bhaji gives one more satisfied squirm and dozes off looking incredibly smug.
- The dragon made a supreme squirm and got away from his captor.
Synonyms twitch, wriggle, squirm, jiggle, shuffle, tic, spasm, shudder
Derivatives noun Buddy was such a squirmer, we put him in pull-ups earlier just because they were easier to get on him. Example sentencesExamples - The flick has the substance and comedy to entertain an adult audience, and enough pizzazz and yahoo to keep even the youngest squirmer of the family in his seat.
- Even if you use the safety belt, you should still keep one hand on your little squirmer at all times.
- The squirmers offered little hope of excellence, with the girls trying to carefully follow his directions while the boys’ attention often seemed to be elsewhere.
- In September when you meet them they are simply 25 or 30 little mysteries, some well-behaved, some frightened, some precocious, some of them more problematic, some of them unmanageable squirmers, some of them eternal ‘motor mouth,’ as Miss Resitetter said about Christina, but all of them still packages with unknown contents and still unknown possibilities.
adjective What's more, both of the boys read this site on occasion, which makes me feel even more squirmy about all the commentary. Example sentencesExamples - But the ends to which it aspires are neither moderate, nor reasonable, and it gives me a squirmy feeling to contemplate them.
- But several of the groups seem a little squirmy in their new clothes.
- To avoid disturbing the session, I pick him up out of his car seat and walk him up and down the room, he's a bit squirmy but calming down.
- This boy and my son were squirmy and they wanted to run outside at night and play on the sidewalk now that their ice cream was done.
Origin Late 17th century: symbolic of writhing movement; probably associated with worm. Rhymes affirm, berm, confirm, firm, germ, herm, midterm, perm, sperm, term, therm, worm Definition of squirm in US English: squirmverbskwərmskwərm [no object]1Wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort. all my efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless Example sentencesExamples - He gently took out a small bundle that began to squirm.
- The Wolf girl was grunting and squirming, her body wiggling from side to side.
- I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
- Noelle didn't squirm or fidget, but she appeared uncomfortable.
- I squirmed on the uncomfortable seat, trying to work some feeling back into my numb tailbone.
- As if sensing his discomfort, the baby squirmed with an alarming vitality.
- Peering out past the bank, I could see our three shapes in the water, twisting and squirming in the current.
- The child wriggled and squirmed, trying to pull himself out of their grasp.
- She paused and studied him for a long moment until he finally squirmed in discomfort.
- He squirmed and wriggled, ignoring the pain I know he must be feeling.
- A technician discovered the dead rodent and believes it had squirmed into the body of the PC to keep warm.
- She tried to pick him up but he was squirming and twisting to lick her face so much that she had to set him down.
- His body squirmed and screamed like it was too fragile for his heavy soul.
- I lay there on the wood floors of my kitchen, squirming, as my body wanted to run itself against a wall.
- Befuddled by heat and sleep, she'd twist and squirm to pull on her modesty bestowing chador and headscarf.
- I shouted, squirming and twisting my arm, trying to get it out of his grip.
- Johnny was refusing to eat his Cheerios and was squirming in his chair as his mother tried to feed him.
- Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining.
- Helen grasped the young cat tightly in her arms, where it began to squirm nervously.
- They were lying utterly still or squirming in discomfort, some cradling injured arms.
Synonyms wriggle, wiggle, writhe, twist, slide, slither, turn, shift, fidget, jiggle, twitch, thresh, flounder, flail, toss and turn - 1.1 Show or feel embarrassment or shame.
Example sentencesExamples - This was very funny stuff, much of it excruciatingly so - straight out of the theatre of embarrassment - making viewers squirm as well as laugh.
- Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public.
- From where Solomon stood, he could see several of the folk squirm in response to having lost all excretory control.
- Commenting on the report, Coun Stoddard said: ‘There are things in here which I know would make people in certain areas of my ward squirm.’
- But if going into stores that carry smaller sizes truly makes her squirm, don't beg her to go in.
- Watching a Mayo team squirm in defeat is indeed a welcome sight.
- For various practical and cultural reasons, religion makes the media squirm more than any other subject.
- Making an audience squirm at provocative sex has nothing necessarily to do with encouraging thought.
- Christy gave a guilty squirm and immediately put her mind in full reverse, attempting to block out the next few sentences.
- Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
- They went quite well, she blushed, and then squirmed as she was asked what ‘quite well’ actually meant.
- The first debate question ever posed to fledgling presidential candidate Wesley Clark was one that might have made a practiced politician squirm.
- And yet he goes and lumbers his latest outfit with a name to make you wince and squirm: Incognico.
- Now it was Gabe's turn to squirm and blush as crimson as roses.
- This wasn't supposed to happen - the plan was to make the boss squirm as he continued to act straight.
- The mistreatment of child orphans, the poor and the women in this era is viscerally staged, making the audience squirm agonizingly in their seats.
- I'll not mention the fact that I could actually hear the audience squirm with every failed delivery.
- Frankie Dettori squirms when recalling the moment his credibility as a top class jockey was brought into question.
- Admit it - deep down inside us plods patronisingly known as ‘the public’ love to see the rich and famous squirm.
- This site will make your boss squirm as it lets you compare your salary with others in similar jobs as well as your colleagues.
Synonyms wince, blush, flush, go red
nounskwərmskwərm A wriggling movement. Example sentencesExamples - Tanj did her best to shrug, a motion that came out as a squirm more than anything.
- The letter gives rise to a pleasurable squirm, somewhere deep in my stomach.
- Li'l Bhaji gives one more satisfied squirm and dozes off looking incredibly smug.
- Okay, so the album's not a step forward so much as a squirm in quicksand.
- Cerise smiles that annoying smile, doing the coy squirm.
- This music is slightly denser, though, and the little squirms of static that bubble up now and then help to unsettle the music even more.
- The unconscious girl gave a slight squirm in the warmth of Kashiro's embrace.
- At its base a short squirm and section of stooping passage brings one to the first of the major features of the cave, the Canal.
- The dragon made a supreme squirm and got away from his captor.
- Too many film-makers want the scream of shock at a big moment but forget that the real pleasure is the squirms and screams that come in the build up.
- The average foreigner is a tortured soul, trying desperately to discern any logic in the squirms and squiggles of an Indian road map.
- Still, even while driving in and out of Irish potholes, you'll hear no squeak or feel no squirm from the structure or fittings.
- She caught his shocked look and tried to hide a squirm.
- His first reaction was a squirm of embarrassment.
- The other twin let out another squeal followed by a squirm.
Synonyms twitch, wriggle, squirm, jiggle, shuffle, tic, spasm, shudder
Origin Late 17th century: symbolic of writhing movement; probably associated with worm. |