squirm

To twist about in a wriggling, snakelike motion; writhe.

To feel or exhibit signs of humiliation or embarrassment.

The act of squirming.

A squirming movement.

A wriggling motion, like that of a worm or an eel.

Nautical, a twist in a rope.

To wriggle or writhe, as an eel or a worm; hence, to writhe mentally.

To climb by wriggling; “shin”: as, to squirm up a tree.

To twist about briskly with contortions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.