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/twɪnd͡ʒ/ · verb
To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch..
My side twinges if I sit too long.
That ring-dove, who was cooing half-a-mile away, has hushed his moan; that flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones a few minutes since, are gone; and now there is not even a gnat to quiver in the slant sun-rays.
I tell thee, I do vſe to teare their hair, to kick them, and to tvvindge their noſes, if they be not carefull in auoiding me.
Thus Captaine Beſſus, thus; thus tvvinge your noſe, thus kicke, thus tread you.
Eaſe his pockets / Of a ſuperfluous VVatch, or geld a ievvell / Of an odde ſtone, or ſo. Tvvinge three or foure buttons / From off my Ladyes govvne. Theſe are the arts / Or ſeuen liberall deadly ſciences / of Pagery, or rather Paganiſme, / As the tides run.
[E]ntring into the pores of the ſkin, it [coldness] keeps back and drives in again the little bodies of heat, by oppoſing the bodies of cold, and vvith its little ſharp corners, it tears and tvvingeth all things vvhereſoever it paſſes.
For vvhen a Man is paſt his Senſe, / There's no way to Reduce him thence, / But tvvinging him by th' Ears, or Noſe, / Or laying on of heavy Blovvs, / And if that vill not do the Deed, / To burning vvith Hot Irons proceed.
Thou twingest therewith as doth a (pair of) tongs.
Use twinge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Twinge means To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch..
Common synonyms include earwig, vellicate, squeeze, sting.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My side twinges if I sit too long.
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