twinge

[Twinge]

A sudden sharp feeling

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To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

Noun
a sharp stab of pain

Noun
a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"

Verb
squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

Verb
feel a sudden sharp, local pain

Verb
cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"

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v. i.
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

v. i.
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

v. i.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

n.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

n.
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

Twinge

Twinge , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twinged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Twinging.] [OE. twengen, AS. twengan; akin to OE. twingen to pain, afflict, OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þ'81n to press, OHG. d&umac;hen, and probably to E. thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Cf. Thong.] 1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows.

2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.

Twinge

Twinge, v. i. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

Twinge

Twinge, n. 1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears.

2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side. " A twinge for my own sin." Dryden.

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

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Usage Examples

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

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