"twitchlike" meaning in English

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twitch + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more twitchlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most twitchlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Leon Uris, Trinity, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 50:",
          "text": "Tomas' hands worked open and closed in a twitchlike grab at the straw, writhing slightly.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Death: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 62:",
          "text": "Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 June, S[imon] C. Gandevia, J. L. Taylor, “Supraspinal fatigue: the effects of caffeine on human muscle performance”, in Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 100, number 6, Bethesda, M.D.: American Physiological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1749, column 1:",
          "text": "If a twitchlike increment in force is obtained with stimulation of the nerve innervating part of the contracting muscles, suboptimal motoneuron output is obvious.",
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        "Resembling a twitch."
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          "twitch",
          "twitch#Noun"
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  "word": "twitchlike"
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      },
      "expansion": "twitch + -like",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twitch + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more twitchlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most twitchlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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      "expansion": "twitchlike (comparative more twitchlike, superlative most twitchlike)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Leon Uris, Trinity, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 50:",
          "text": "Tomas' hands worked open and closed in a twitchlike grab at the straw, writhing slightly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Death: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 62:",
          "text": "Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 June, S[imon] C. Gandevia, J. L. Taylor, “Supraspinal fatigue: the effects of caffeine on human muscle performance”, in Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 100, number 6, Bethesda, M.D.: American Physiological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1749, column 1:",
          "text": "If a twitchlike increment in force is obtained with stimulation of the nerve innervating part of the contracting muscles, suboptimal motoneuron output is obvious.",
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        "Resembling a twitch."
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