Thesaurus: twinge

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1. v. i. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
2. v. i. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
3. v. i. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
4. n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
5. n. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
6. n. a sudden sharp feeling
7. n. a sharp stab of pain
8. v. cause a stinging pain
9. v. feel a sudden sharp, local pain
10. v. squeeze tightly between the fingers
11. 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. Hudibras. 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. L'Estrange. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. 1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears. L' Estrange. 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.
12. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer akeen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.