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Synonyms for spasm
ˈspæz əmspasm

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Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. spasm, cramp, muscle spasmnoun

    a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

    Synonyms:
    muscle spasm, cramp iron, cramp

  2. spasmnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    muscle spasm, cramp

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. spasmnoun

    Synonyms:
    twitch, sudden contraction (as of the muscles)

  2. spasmnoun

    Synonyms:
    fit, paroxysm, throe

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. spasmnoun

    Synonyms:
    convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe

PPDB, the paraphrase database2.0 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "spasm":

    twitch, thrill

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How to use spasm in a sentence?

  1. George Steiner:

    The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

  2. Ron DeSantis:

    One of the things I've learned in this job is when you're leading, when you're getting things done, you take incoming fire. That's just the nature of it, i roll out of bed in the morning and I have corporate media outlets that have a spasm just because I'm getting up in the morning, and it's just constantly attacking.

  3. Alexis Tsipras:

    A frenzy of fear-mongering with the responsibility of the Prime Minister himself is a final spasm before the end, the countdown for the ruling coalition and its catastrophic policies has already started.


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