Synonyms of the word

twinge

• n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• n. A sudden sharp pain.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

nip

• n. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
• n. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
• v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or…
• v. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
• v. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
• v. To annoy, as by nipping.
• v. To taunt.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
• n. A playful bite.
• n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
• n. Briskly cold weather.
• n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
• n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
• n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
• n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
• n. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
• n. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
• n. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
• v. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

pang

• n. (often pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe.
• n. (often pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow.
• v. (transitive) to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

stab

• n. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
• n. A wound made by stabbing.
• n. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
• n. (informal) An attempt.
• n. Criticism.
• n. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
• n. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle…
• v. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
• v. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used…
• v. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

sting

• n. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
• n. A bite by an insect.
• n. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
• n. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis.
• n. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
• n. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
• n. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
• n. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
• n. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or…
• n. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
• n. (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
• n. A goad; incitement.
• n. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
• v. (transitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
• v. (transitive, of an insect) To bite.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain.
• v. (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

tweet

• n. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
• n. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
• v. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
• interj. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

twitch

• n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
• n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
• n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).