ˈɪnsɛkt laʊs

skwɜːm skwɝm twɪst wɜːm wɝm wɜːm wɝm ˈɹɛ.səl ˈɹɪɡəl ɹaɪð to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) The prisoner writhed in discomfort The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect