Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to twitch
Participle: twitched
Gerund: twitching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | twitch |
| you | twitch |
| he;she;it | twitches |
| we | twitch |
| you | twitch |
| they | twitch |
Perfect
| I | have twitched |
| you | have twitched |
| he;she;it | has twitched |
| we | have twitched |
| you | have twitched |
| they | have twitched |
Past
| I | twitched |
| you | twitched |
| he;she;it | twitched |
| we | twitched |
| you | twitched |
| they | twitched |
Pluperfect
| I | had twitched |
| you | had twitched |
| he;she;it | had twitched |
| we | had twitched |
| you | had twitched |
| they | had twitched |
Future
| I | will twitch |
| you | will twitch |
| he;she;it | will twitch |
| we | will twitch |
| you | will twitch |
| they | will twitch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have twitched |
| you | will have twitched |
| he;she;it | will have twitched |
| we | will have twitched |
| you | will have twitched |
| they | will have twitched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | twitch |
| you | twitch |
| he;she;it | twitch |
| we | twitch |
| you | twitch |
| they | twitch |
Perfect
| I | have twitched |
| you | have twitched |
| he;she;it | have twitched |
| we | have twitched |
| you | have twitched |
| they | have twitched |
Imperfect
| I | twitched |
| you | twitched |
| he;she;it | twitched |
| we | twitched |
| you | twitched |
| they | twitched |
Pluperfect
| I | had twitched |
| you | had twitched |
| he;she;it | had twitched |
| we | had twitched |
| you | had twitched |
| they | had twitched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would twitch |
| you | would twitch |
| he;she;it | would twitch |
| we | would twitch |
| you | would twitch |
| they | would twitch |
Perfect
| I | would have twitched |
| you | would have twitched |
| he;she;it | would have twitched |
| we | would have twitched |
| you | would have twitched |
| they | would have twitched |
Imperative
| you | twitch |
| we | Let's twitch |
| you | twitch |
Verbs conjugated like 'twitch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'twitch'
switch,
titch,
witch,
bewitch,
bitch,
clitch,
cwtch,
ditch,
flitch,
glitch,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1175,
to-twic-chen "pull apart with a quick jerk," related to O.E.
twiccian "to pluck," from P.Gmc.
*twikjonan (cf. Low Ger.
twicken, Du.
twikken, O.H.G.
gizwickan, Ger.
zwicken "to pinch, tweak"). The noun is attested from 1523.
2. From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twiċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”).
3. Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweckōn and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)). See: English '
tweak', Low Saxon 'twikken'.
Verbs referencing "twitch"
Polish
ćwiczyć, German, old spelling
zwicken, Dutch
twitchen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] man, from the west; sunburnt and swarthy; with a brown white hat on his knees, and a giant umbrella resting between his legs; who sat bolt upright in his chair, frowning steadily at the carpet, and twitching the hard lines about his mouth, as if he had made up his mind ‘to fix ’ the President on what he had to say, and would n't bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, six-feet-six in height, with [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)