twinge
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /twɪndʒ/
twinge (plural twinges)
Translations- French: élancement
- Russian: резкий
twinge (twinges, present participle twingeing; past and past participle twinged)
- (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
- Hudibras
- 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
- (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
- L'Estrange
- The gnat […] twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.
- L'Estrange
- (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
- My side twinges.
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