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Twitch

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Noun

1. twitch, twitching, vellication

a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition

Verb

2. jerk, twitch

make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion

Example Sentences:
'his face is twitching'

3. jerk, twitch

move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions

Example Sentences:
'The patient's legs were jerkings'

4. flip, twitch

toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air

5. nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch

squeeze tightly between the fingers

Example Sentences:
'He pinched her behind'
'She squeezed the bottle'

6. twitch

move or pull with a sudden motion

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Twitch

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verb
1. 
to move or cause to move in a jerky spasmodic way
2. (transitive)
to pull or draw (something) with a quick jerky movement
3. (intransitive)
to hurt with a sharp spasmodic pain
4. (transitive) rare
to nip
noun
5. 
a sharp jerking movement
6. 
a mental or physical twinge
7. 
a sudden muscular spasm
8. 
a loop of cord used to control a horse by drawing it tight about its upper lip

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Twitch

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verb transitive, verb intransitive
1. 
to pull (at) with a quick, slight jerk; pluck
2. 
to move with a quick, slight jerk or jerks or spasmodically
3. 
to ache with a sudden, sharp pain
noun
4. 
a quick, slight jerk
5. 
a sudden, quick motion, esp. a spasmodic one; tic
a facial twitch
6. 
a sudden, sharp pain; twinge

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Twitch

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v. twitched, twitch·ing, twitch·es
v.tr.
To draw, pull, or move suddenly and sharply; jerk: I twitched my fishing line.
v.intr.
1. To move jerkily or spasmodically.
2. To ache sharply from time to time; twinge.
n.
1. A sudden involuntary or spasmodic muscular movement: a twitch of the eye.
2. A sudden pulling; a tug: The fish gave my line a twitch.
3. A sudden, sharp pain.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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