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twitch

2 noun
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
twitch2 [countable]
1MIHBH a quick movement of a muscle, especially one that you cannot control:
a nervous twitch
2 a sudden quick movement:
There was no movement in the house, not even a twitch of the curtains.
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