squirming

Meaning of squirming

verb
  1. To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
    The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.
  2. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
    I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm.
  3. To evade a question, an interviewer etc.

noun

The motion of something that squirms.

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Hyphenation of squirming

squirm-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • squirming is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

squirming synonyms

Meaning twisting:

twisting, wiggling, wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing

Meaning :

wriggle, writhe, fidget

Words that rhyme with squirming

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