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A sudden spasm
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twitching
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twitch \Twitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twitched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Twitching .] [OE. twicchen, fr. (doubtful) AS. twiccian; akin to AS. angeltwicca a worm used for bait, literally, a hook twitcher, LG. twikken to tweak, G. zwicken. Cf. Tweak .] To pull with ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition [syn: twitch , vellication ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
That twitches. n. 1 The motion of something that twitches. 2 compulsive birdwatching by people (twitchers) who travel long distances to see rare species v (present participle of twitch English)
Usage examples of twitching.
Among the tears and touchings and uneasy tail twitchings were hopeful, even desperate requests for him to do his best to try to mollify the Iollth.
Whether he would be sensitive to any great pain he could not say, but twitchings and the sharpest attacks of gout affected him not.
It had a volume of perhaps thirty cubic centimeters, the size of an average radish, corresponding to a few hundred million neurons and some hundred billion bits-which controlled, among other things, the munching of lettuce, the twitchings of noses, and the sexual dalliances of grownup rabbits.
The principal remedy in cramps, spasms, neuralgias, twitchings, paroxysms, etc.
Whenever the lightning flashed, all the muscles simultaneously came into repeated and violent twitchings, so that the movements of the muscles, like the flash of the lightning, always preceded the thunder, and thus, as it were, heralded its coming.
He did not bother to withdraw it before he went through the victim's pockets, ignoring the twitchings and feeble pawings of the dying man .
The legs did not move, except for a few pithed-frog twitchings as the severed spinal nerves sent their last impulses.
In certain cases involuntary twitchings of some of the facial muscles may be observed.
He did not bother to withdraw it before he went through the victim's pockets, ignoring the twitchings and feeble pawings of the dying man .
The rout was on, and between the stampede and the quick spread of flames, the area below the mound was cleared in minutes, and not another movement did the friends see for the few remaining hours of the night, save the pitiful writhing of the mass of limbs, and the twitchings of burned torsos.
Shortly afterwards I was shot down and although the physical injuries I sustained were not particularly serious it resulted in my developing a number of infuriating nervous reactions, such as involuntary twitchings of the hands and face.
It was not until the ship was within ten miles of the surface that the slow wrinklings and twitchings of the vast carpets of animal tissue which crawled over the land surface became obvious, and the unnatural stillness of the thick, soupy sea.