| Twinge 1. (n.) A darting local pain of short duration; as, a twinge in the arm or side. 2. (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. 3. (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. 4. (n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. Thesaurus Entries ache, acute pain, agonize, ail, anguish, bite, blanch, blench, boring pain, charley horse, cramp, cramps, crick, darting pain, feel pain, feel the pangs, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gnawing, grimace, gripe, griping, have a misery, hitch, hurt, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, misery, nip, pain, pang, paroxysm, pinch, pound, prick, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shrink, smart, spasm, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, suffer, thrill, throb, throes, tingle, tormen, tweak, twitch, wince, wrench, writhe |