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Twitching   /twˈɪtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Twitching

noun
1.
A sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition.  Synonyms: twitch, vellication.


Twitch

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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"Twitching" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Magus, indicating the salon, every bristle of his white beard twitching as he spoke. "But the riches are here! And what riches! Kings have nothing ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac
... at full length on the turf behind the Lodge, literally biting the earth in spasms of joy. Stalky kicked him upright. There was nothing of levity about Stalky or McTurk save a stray muscle twitching ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... question unanswered; but I ordered him off again, and, to enforce my command, called a dog that did not exist. My ruse, however, did not succeed. The Yankee still continued his examination, while I followed closely on his heels, now and then twitching the long skirts of his surtout to enforce my mandate for ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... people, and some will always be slave-drivers; they will bow to you, and then take it out on the others. Harkaman's nose was twitching as though he had a bit of rotten fish ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... his mask and turned a corpse-like visage on the younger man. Every feature of his face had altered: his good looks were gone, the youth in his eyes had disappeared, only a little evil lustre played over them; and out of the drawn pallor Duane saw an old man peering, an old man's lips twitching back from uneven ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers


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