EGAVE

twitch

About 0.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
    I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.
  2. noun Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
  3. noun A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
  4. noun A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
  5. noun The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
  6. noun A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
  7. verb To perform a twitch; spasm.
    His fingers were nervously twitching.
  8. verb To cause to twitch; spasm.

Similar words

twinge pinch vellicate squeeze nip tweet jerk flip tic spasm

Often followed by

of and fibers in muscle at or response tension

Word family

twitched twitcher twitchers twitches twitchily twitching

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