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By meaning 1
to twist one's body and move the limbs:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to twist one's body and move the limbs:

Examples

29 sentences

  1. Wriggle your toes.

    Поворуши пальцями ніг. — deniko

    ruПошевелите пальцами ног. — Wezel

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  2. Tom wriggled his toes.

    deTom streckte seine Zehen aus. — pullnosemans

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  3. Get a wriggle on.

    Хутчіш. — deniko

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Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.

    Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.

    sich winden, sich schlängeln, zappeln

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  2. (transitive)To cause something to wriggle.

    He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.

  3. (intransitive)To use crooked or devious means.

More definitions
  • to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

Origin

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Lo

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).

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Forms

wriggles, wriggling, wriggled, wriggled

regular · Lesson

Base formwriggle · to wriggle
3rd person singularwriggles
Present participlewriggling
Past simplewriggled
Past participlewriggled

Tenses

wriggle · wriggled · will wriggle · have wriggled

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywriggle
he, she, itwriggles

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave wriggled
he, she, ithas wriggled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill wriggle

Past simpleLesson

all personswriggled

Synonyms

6 synonyms
To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions:wiggle
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedwriggler
Derivedwriggly

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wretchwretchedwretchedlywretchednesswrightwringwringer

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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