spasm English

Meaning spasm meaning

What does spasm mean?

Definitions in simple English

spasm Noun

— A spasm is a sudden and jerky movement. People who are having seizures sometimes spasm.

spasm Verb

— To spasm is to have body parts shake violently.

spasm

— noun a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

— noun (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)

Synonyms spasm synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as spasm?

spasm English » English

cramp

convulsion

twitch

seizure

fit

contraction

stiff

pang

muscle spasm

kink

crick

cramps

convulse

writhe

twinge

throe

tetany

tetanus

tetanilla

sudden pain

stitch

spastic

spasmus

scar

rigid

paroxysm

outburst

opisthotonos

muscular constricture

lame

jerk

grip

difficult breathing

convulsions

contract

bent

Topics spasm topics

What do people use spasm to talk about?

Person Healthy

Injure

• What words refer to injuring a muscle?
  pull strain tear cramp spasm convulsion

Person Healthy

Symptom of disease

• What words refer to muscles cramping from pain?
  cramp be bent over (with pain) doubled up (with pain) spasm

Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body

• What words refer to moving your muscles?
  flex (muscles) ripple contract tighten tense relax bunch up cramp twitch stretch tear pull bulge spasm convulsion

Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

• What words refer to moving quickly for a short time?
  jerk twitch start spasm jump snap nip in shoot spurt dash

Examples spasm examples

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Movie subtitles

I felt this spasm inside me. Killed on the spot, he said.

Judge, sir, it's like a nervous spasm a nervous spasm I can't control, it has never happened to me.

No, no, that was no spasm.

How am I gonna know they'll be killed outright? If it's a spasm shot you're worried about, I figure to hit the boy in the brain and cut his motors.

Everyone bears it like a nerve poison, a slowly working poison, felt only as a quicker or slower pulse, or as a spasm of nausea.

Like you can inject Arecholin for intestinal spasm.

Like a spasm.

It's only a muscle spasm.

That or the world's worst muscle spasm.

My breath is short and I feel a spasm when I speak.

I'm going to bend over, open my mouth, and when the muscles in my alimentary canal go into spasm.

It's just an emotional spasm!

I have taken the astronavigation exam nine times. Ten, if you count the time I had my spasm.

I won't stand for a lush. What do you think this is, a spasm band like Hazzard's?

I got a nerve spasm in my neck.

Sometimes he would get a spasm and we had to carry him to the mud bath.

If it's a spasm shot you're worried about, I figure to hit the boy in the brain and cut his motors.

That's the drug. It produces abdominal spasm and peritoneal symptoms.

No, Mark. You've got plus-four peritonitis, guarding and spasm, honey.

Bite reflex, like a spasm.

You haven't seen any atrocities in Cambodia? - It's just an emotional spasm!

Your Honour, counsel is having a clonus spasm.

It's an involuntary spasm, sir.

Leucocytosis and indication of vascular spasm.

I felt this spasm inside me.

I thought, perhaps the spasm's hurting.

The spasm's in the back between the shoulder blades.

If someone else drives it could easily go right into spasm.

Spasm?

Spasm.

I'm in spasm.

You think you're in spasm and you're not in spasm, and I'm in spasm.

Please, I'm in spasm.

He's in spasm.

News and current affairs

Turkey was the theater of exceptional violence in the twentieth century: its participation in WWI fueled hatred and gigantic massacres, with the genocide of the Armenians the last vicious spasm of the Ottoman Empire's brutal demise.

Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails.

It is an anarchic spasm of violence by a tiny minority.

A crash, or at least a sharp spasm, is quite likely in the near future, and the consequences - for America and the world - may be catastrophic.

If so, the Kim dynasty's last chapter may have begun with the current spasm of executions, though the ending - for the Korean Peninsula and East Asia alike - remains very much in doubt.