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wriggle

/ˈɹɪɡəl/ verbe C2

En français : remuer, se tortiller

  1. To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. (intransitive) · Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
  2. To cause something to wriggle. (transitive) · He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
  3. To use crooked or devious means. (intransitive)

He/she/it wriggles · Prétérit wriggled · Participe passé wriggled · Forme en -ing wriggling

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Forme de base
wriggle
He/she/it
wriggles
Prétérit
wriggled
Participe passé
wriggled
Forme en -ing
wriggling

Dans la bibliothèque

“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 37 · B2
But just as Teddy was stooping, something wriggled a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: “Be careful.
The Jungle Book, p. 70 · B2
Anne, you sit here on the ottoman and don’t wriggle.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 57 · C1
The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 117 · C1

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