to twinge

Examples

• All

• Much as I twinge in sympathy for those who call for destroying or dismantling the mosque, I can't condone it.

  Blog text (29)

• But it did twinge my thoughts because sometimes if it hasn't directly happened to you, as an individual, it is just something that has happened to someone else and is not necessarily in the forefront of your thoughts.

  Blog text (5)

• It, uh, twinges a bit now and then.

  The Beguiled (2017)

• I recon that twinges a bit

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

• The rough motion of her little body wrenches twinges out of his tender, stunned chest, where something living flutters and aches.

  Fiction book (1990)

• She felt a sharp twinge in her ankle after she twisted it while running.

• When he reminisculated about his childhood, a twinge of nostalgia hit him unexpectedly.

• As she watched the movie, a twinge of sadness washed over her during the emotional scene.

Synonyms

P

to pang

vsto twinge

1 6.5

To feel a sudden sharp pain or a quick strong feeling of regret

is a smaller sudden sensation that can be physical or emotional

E

to elance

vsto twinge

9.9

A sudden sharp pain that passes quickly through part of the body

is similar but also names sudden emotional feelings not only brief bodily pain

Antonyms

C

comfort

190 1.0

A feeling of physical ease and being free from pain

S

to soothe

63 3.4

To make someone feel calmer or reduce their pain

Compounds

T

twinge of guilt

1 5.0

A sudden sharp feeling of guilt

T

twinge of sadness

1 4.1

A sudden sharp feeling of sadness

How Sharp

to agonize

• US

14 6.7

sting

64 1.4

to twinge

1 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology