twinged

verb

past tense of twinge
as in throbbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twinged
  1. throbbed
  2. tingled
  3. bit
  4. stung
  5. ached
  6. itched
  7. swelled
  8. pained
Verb
  • My knee throbbed from hitting the rocks and the questions filled my head.
    — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • There have been plenty of times when my feet throbbed after hours of sightseeing.
    — Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2026
Definition of throbbed
Verb
  • The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Definition of tingled
Verb
  • Lungs bit his lip, weighing if this was a good or a bad thing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Another fisherman, David Zamora, reported a similar encounter near Cambria in 2019, when a roughly 10-foot great white shark bit his kayak about two miles offshore from Leffingwell Landing, according to local news outlet KSBY.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of bit
Verb
  • Stephanie Rowell — a 53-year-old from Round Hill, Virginia — was standing on her parents’ front porch in July when she was stung by a wasp in her left arm.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Back in the mind-mansion, Ultron doesn’t admit Thomas stung him.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of stung
Verb
  • The summer Nicole Fusaro went missing, her mother walked up and down Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood until her feet ached.
    — Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
  • My teeth ached and my pulse raced just walking into this everyday Halloween.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of ached
Verb
  • Jennifer Aniston told Glamour her eyes itched and burned while reading scripts, pushing her to use drops multiple times an hour.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Underwood had divvied up his team between an offensive coordinator (his son, Tyler) and defensive (Zach Hamer) but when Hamer itched to move into more of a player development role, Underwood challenged the duo to find him someone young, smart and willing to tweak, but not reinvent, the defense.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of itched
Verb
  • The number of titles receiving airplay swelled from seven to 18, while stations playing at least one song of his increased from 72 to 94.
    — Russ Penuell, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Ongoing demonstrations over the housing shortage swelled in Spain and Portugal, where students set up tent camps in city squares.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of swelled
Verb
  • One day, at a hardware store near Flagg Mountain, he was pained to see bundles of fatwood—pine heartwood—being sold as kindling.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • As someone who deals with an immense amount of scrutiny regarding his own appearance, Davidson is pained to see the vitriol another ex, Grande, has been subjected to of late.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of pained
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