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Hurting vs Twinge - What's the difference?

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Hurting is a related term of twinge.


As verbs the difference between hurting and twinge

is that hurting is while twinge is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

As nouns the difference between hurting and twinge

is that hurting is a sensation that hurts while twinge is a pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

hurting

English

Verb

(wikipedia hurting) (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that hurts.
  • * 1997 , Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness
  • Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way

    twinge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  • A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
  • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}

    Verb

    (twing)
  • To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  • * Hudibras
  • When a man is past his sense, / There's no way to reduce him thence, / But twinging him by the ears or nose, / Or laying on of heavy blows.
  • To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  • * L'Estrange
  • The gnat twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.
  • To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.