twitch vs cramp
cramp vs twitchtwitch and cramp both are nouns.
twitch and cramp both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| twitch | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| cramp | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
cramp is a hypernym of
twitch; that is, cramp is a
word with a broader meaning than twitch:
- twitch: a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
- cramp: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Other hypernyms of twitch include
muscle spasm, spasm.
| twitch (noun) | cramp (noun) |
|---|---|
| a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together |
| a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | |
| a painful and involuntary muscular contraction |
| twitch (verb) | cramp (verb) |
|---|---|
| make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle |
| squeeze tightly between the fingers | affect with or as if with a cramp |
| move or pull with a sudden motion | prevent the progress or free movement of |
| toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | secure with a cramp |
| move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions |
Words related to "twitch"
Words related to "cramp"
- affect
- blepharospasm
- bound
- charley horse
- charley-horse
- clamp
- clinch
- confine
- cramp iron
- crick
- fasten
- fix
- get
- graphospasm
- halter
- hamper
- have
- kink
- limit
- muscle spasm
- myoclonus
- opisthotonos
- restrict
- rick
- secure
- slip
- spasm
- strangle
- strip
- suffer
- sustain
- symptom
- tenesmus
- throttle
- trammel
- trismus
- twitch
- twitching
- vellication
- wrick
- writer's cramp
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