twinge
twinges; twinged; twinging
A twinge is a sting or pang of pain that happens suddenly. Are you recovering from a basketball injury? You may still feel a twinge of discomfort in your knee when you do a layup.
You can experience a physically painful twinge, but there are also twinges that are more emotional, like the twinge of sadness you feel when you look at photos of your old house. Use this word as a verb, too, if you like: "Did your shoulders twinge when you gave your little brother a piggyback ride?" Long ago, to twinge meant to pinch, and the word's origin traces back to the Old English twengan, "to pinch."
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a sudden sharp feeling“twinges of conscience”
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types:
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guilt pang
pangs of feeling guilty
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type of:
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feeling
the experiencing of affective and emotional states
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guilt pang
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a sharp stab of pain
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type of:
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pain, pain sensation, painful sensation
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
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pain, pain sensation, painful sensation
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cause a stinging pain
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squeeze tightly between the fingers
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feel a sudden sharp, local pain
Vocabulary lists containing twinge
In this sequel to Out of My Mind, sixth-grader Melody Brooks will not let her cerebral palsy stop her from enjoying all the activities offered by The Green Glades Therapeutic Recreational summer camp.
Neel, a young Bengali boy, searches his island home to find a tiger cub and rescue it from a man who hopes to sell it on the black market.
After taking a new job to help out his family during the Great Depression, ten-year-old Beans Curry learns that some actions can have dire consequences.
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