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Twitch   /twɪtʃ/   Listen
Twitch

noun
1.
A sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition.  Synonyms: twitching, vellication.
verb
(past & past part. twitched; pres. part. twitching)
1.
Make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion.  Synonym: jerk.
2.
Move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions.  Synonym: jerk.
3.
Toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air.  Synonym: flip.
4.
Squeeze tightly between the fingers.  Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge.  "She squeezed the bottle"
5.
Move or pull with a sudden motion.



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"Twitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... colored, as he noticed on my face a twitch in one of the muscles which tuck up the corner of the mouth, (zygomaticus major,) and which I could not hold back from making a little movement on its ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 3, No. 16, February, 1859 • Various
... Judge, the Doctor's full lips had begun to twitch in a smile, and his eyes to twinkle. Then he ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... mistaken for one. The escape of Ned was a narrow one. He felt one of the bullets pierce his clothing, and a sting in the hand told him that he had been slightly wounded. At the same moment he felt a peculiar twitch or quiver of the steed, which indicated that he also had been hit. It was like the jar of the smoothly-moving machinery when some slight obstruction gets into the works. Still there was no abatement of ...
— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne
... dramatic instinct, to watch the effect of this broadside. A faint nervous twitch of the chin and the eyelids—then absolute immobility. The Potato Baron had assumed the "poker face" of all Orientals—wherefore Bill Conway knew the man was on his guard and would admit nothing. So ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... There the chill wind was changed into sound. Like a restless insect he hovered about her, like a butterfly whose antennae flicker and twitch sensitively as they gather intelligence, touching the aura, as it were, of the female. He was exceedingly delicate in his handling ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence


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