Paroxysm is valid Scrabble Word

Is paroxysm a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for PAROXYSM in dictionary:

NOUN:

a sudden fit or attack
a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity
a sudden recurrence or attack of a disease
uncontrollable outburst of rage, delight, etc
The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.
a sudden uncontrollable attack

Words related to PAROXYSM

Words that contain PAROXYSM

paroxysms23 paroxysmal24 paroxysmic26 paroxysmally29 interparoxysmal29

How to use PAROXYSM in a sentence

When Rosie brought the mail to the door, he actually thanked her, which brought on another paroxysm of tears, and made even the cook shake her head doubtfully.
This savage paroxysm of revenge was followed by thoughts of suicide.
The brooding paroxysm was over, or at least her passion had changed its phase.
If calmed for a time, the paroxysm is very liable to return.
He has just recovered from a paroxysm at this writing.
Soon after, his master, in a paroxysm of rage, fell upon him, wore out his staff upon his head, loaded him again with chains, and after a month, sold him farther south.
Hunter was subject, though not at this time labouring under a paroxysm.
Within the niche Lady Arabella cowered in a paroxysm of fear.
Once upon a time, the mountain, in a paroxysm of fever, shook its summits like a cathedral that is falling in.
All he had ever suffered before was mild in comparison with this dire paroxysm.

In a paroxysm of excitement, to prevent himself from speaking he thrust the bed-clothes into his mouth, nearly suffocating himself.
In the paroxysm of excited curiosity, passion and jealousy, a woman makes no calculations, takes no observations.
I flew into a paroxysm of rage, which almost made me faint.
I never in my life saw an animal in such a paroxysm of rage.
The driver felt that he had gossiped too much, and relapsed into silence, while Adah, in a paroxysm of terror, sat with clasped hands and closed eyes.
And suddenly crumpled up beside the bed, and fell into a paroxysm of silent sobbing.
It was sweet, though, to the dying woman to hear the wish from the child she had ill-treated and neglected so long, and she clasped her to her in a paroxysm of love.
He was in a paroxysm of one of these, when his affairs rendered it necessary for him to go to Washington.
In his paroxysm of heroic will, he believed himself all powerful.
On reaching his dwelling the architect flung himself upon his bed and burst into a paroxysm of weeping.
But we cannot suppose this paroxysm confined to Paris alone.
It nearly always takes the form of a sudden paroxysm of mind.
Sinking into the chair in which she had awaited his coming with so much eagerness of anticipation, Helen broke into an uncontrollable paroxysm of weeping.
She was panting, crying, and wringing her hands in a paroxysm of nervous excitement.
He threw his head back as if in a paroxysm of pain.
Her nervous system was out of order, and her husband had been needlessly frightened by a hysterical paroxysm.
Tidings of the mutiny were brought to General Paez in his quarters and threw him into a paroxysm of rage.
Again, after a paroxysm during which I had seemed to stand a great way off and listen to my own shrieks, there came to me a moment of calm.
A new paroxysm of the warring themes rises to the first great climax where the old symbol of wondering and striving attains a brief moment of assured ecstatic triumph.
In a last paroxysm he had struggled to his feet and fallen across the clock-case, with the intention, as I shall always believe, of putting back the hand of the clock.
He had reached the paroxysm which is called discouragement.
His younger sister, Monroah, fell on his neck in a paroxysm of grief.
In this violent paroxysm the whole top of the mountain is said to have been swept away, the new crater which took the place of the old one being greatly lowered.
But it was at the headquarters of police that the excitement developed into a paroxysm.
Any mention of his son would ever throw him into a paroxysm of tears.
He beat his knee, picked up his hat and bent the brim in an apparent paroxysm of humorous appreciation.

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