SQUIRM | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of squirm in English

(Definition of squirm from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of squirm from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of squirm

squirm
Activity items assessed general activity level (waving arms, moving around the crib, squirming).
Critics squirmed, but the public kept filling the theater.
He finished the rest of the song on his back, writhing, squirming and shouting out the lyrics.
All these behaviors can be plausibly seen as part of an overall behavioral pattern of writhing or squirming.
Rosie's funny little legs kicked in the air; she squirmed with delight, shrieked with laughter.
Exactly, they squirmed all through it.
It is those who have changed—wriggled and squirmed from positionto position with nothing more than political opportunism in mind—whom one cannot respect.
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However much they may wriggle and squirm, it is small businesses and the self-employed who will pay that extra money.
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I have already alluded to the objectionable word "artistes," a word which makes every serious artist squirm.
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Others of a more negative turn of mind simply squirmed at the idea of so significant an extension of parental choice of school.
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They squirm about subsidies to council house dwellers, the under-privileged, and then smile when it is proposed to give £130 million towards manufacturers and industrialists.
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Now they are sitting there squirming and ashamed of themselves because it is being pointed out to them.
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Even large secondary schools are squirming under the pressure caused by the increase in training weeks introduced by circulars 9/92 and 14/93.
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They just do not know what way to squirm.
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We cannot throw off our convictions like a snake throws off its skin as it struggles and squirms its way to a new life.
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Translations of squirm

in Chinese (Traditional)
(因緊張、尷尬或疼痛)動來動去,來回扭動…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(因紧张、尴尬或疼痛)动来动去,来回扭动…
in Spanish
retorcerse, avergonzarse…
in Portuguese
contorcer-se, sentir-se embaraçado/-da…
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kıvranmak, utanmak…
se tortiller, mal à l’aise, ne pas savoir oû se mettre…
身(み)をよじる, もだえる…
kronkelen, zich dood schamen…
svíjet se, propadat se hanbou…
vride sig, krympe sig…
menggeliat, gelisah…
บิดตัวไปมา, บิดตัวไปมาด้วยความอาย…
quằn quại, ngoằn ngoèo, cảm thấy lúng túng…
wiercić się, skręcać się, płonąć ze wstydu…
vrida sig, skruva på sig, skämmas…
menggeliat, rasa gelisah…
sich krümmen, sich winden…
vri seg, krympe seg, sprelle…
звиватися вужем, корчитися, бути дуже збентеженим…
дергаться, поеживаться…
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