1 if a part of your body twitches, or if you twitch it, it makes a sudden quick movement, sometimes one that you cannot control:
[V] Her lips twitched with amusement. * The cats watched each other, their tails twitching. * The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking. [also VN]
2 to give sth a short sharp pull; to be pulled in this way:
[VN] He twitched the package out of my hands. * [V] The curtains twitched as she rang the bell.
Part of speech: noun
1 a sudden quick movement that you cannot control in one of your muscles:
She has a twitch in her left eye. * a nervous twitch
2 a sudden quick movement or feeling:
He greeted us with a mere twitch of his head. * At that moment she felt the first twitch of anxiety.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for twitch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is twitch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, twitch is tagged as verb.
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