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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



... their hands. In other cases there may be a sense of numbness or partial loss of sensation, something akin to that experienced when a hand or arm "goes to sleep," as the popular phrase expresses it. In other cases there is manifested a peculiar jerking, twitching, or vibration of the hands and arms, sometimes extending to the whole body of some of the sitters. Sometimes the hand of the medium will begin to make motions as if he were trying to write, and a pencil ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita
... more, his mouth twitching now. "Jack," he said, "it's all through. I want to ask you. I ought to marry ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough
... the white rabbits at least should have been saved—thinking of his own two in the warm nest in the barn. He was unable to see how white rabbits with twitching pink noses and pink rims around their eyes could be an offense, or, indeed, other than a pure joy even to one so good as God. But he gave in, with new admiration for the ready mind of Cousin Bill J., who pointed out that white rabbits could not have been saved because they were not fish. He even ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson
... the room, with its silent, observant crowd, pressing to his breast the dead body of his child. Then he turned to Lafe, white, twitching, and suffering. ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... did not appear to be hurt. The twitching of his muscles must have been caused by the cactus spikes embedded in him. There were drops of blood all over one side. Lucy thought she dared to try to pull these thorns out. She had never in her life been afraid ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey


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