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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



... it is of women. In such cases the first care should be not to fasten this sense of rush on to anything; the second care should be to go to work to cure it, to relax out of that contraction—just as you would work to cure twitching St. Vitus's dance, ...
— Nerves and Common Sense • Annie Payson Call

... old man, dressed in a shabby overcoat, a silk waistcoat, renewed twice in a score of years, and a very dirty pair of trousers, with a bald head, a face full of deep hollows, a wrinkled, callous skin, a beard that had a trick of twitching its long white bristles, a menacing pointed chin, a toothless mouth, eyes bright as the eyes of his dogs in the yard, and a nose like an obelisk—there he stood in his gallery smiling at the beauty called into being by genius. A Jew surrounded by his millions will always ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac

... sullen, and his lips were twitching nervously. "You care more for him than you do for your own flesh and blood, Jen. There's nothing to get mad about like that. I'll tell you when he's gone. . . . Let's—let's wake him," ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... leisure to observe the man than had Aiken, for it is difficult to study the features of anyone when he is looking at you down a gun-barrel, and it seemed to me that the muscles of the man's mouth as he pressed it against the stock were twitching with a smile. As the side of his face toward me was the one farther from the gun, I was able to see this, but Aiken could not, and he answered, still more angrily: "I tell you, I'm the American Consul. Anyway, it's not going to do you any good to shoot me. ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis

... Leffingwell, John, his son, and Mr. and Mrs. Potter all rose to their feet, when Timmins walked in. Mr. Leffingwell would have another doctor; and while they waited five minutes for him (he was right in the building) Asa, suffering pretty badly, but not giving a sign of it, except for his twitching face, lay on the settee, with Timmins fixing his pillows some other way every second, and Barton off ordering a hot drink from the cook, who had taken a peek, and was crying ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine


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