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wriggled

wriggled is the simple past and past participle of wriggle.

Meaning of wriggle

Verb

wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    wiggle
  2. (transitive) To cause something to wriggle.
    • He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
    Synonyms:
    wiggle
  3. (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.

See all 4 meanings of wriggle

Phrases with wriggled

Questions about wriggled

What is wriggled the simple past and past participle of?
Wriggled is the simple past and past participle of wriggle.

Words near wriggled in the dictionary

  1. wrigged
  2. wrigging
  3. wriggle
  4. wriggle out of
  5. wriggle room
  6. wriggled
  7. wriggled out of
  8. wriggler
  9. wrigglers
  10. wriggles
  11. wriggles out of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wriggled (page history and authors); wriggle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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