Spasm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPASM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to go into spasm
• experience sudden involuntary muscular contractions; twitch convulsively
• An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
• A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
• go into spasm
NOUN:
• a sustained involuntary muscular contraction
• a sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement
• a sudden and brief spell of an activity or sensation
• prolonged involuntary muscle contraction
• a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
• (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
• involuntary muscular contraction
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to undergo an involuntary muscular contraction

Words related to SPASM

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Words that contain SPASM

spasms10 spasmed12 spasmic13 spasming13 spasmatic15 spasmodic16 vasospasm16 spasmodist15 vasospasms17 spasmatical17 spasmodical18 spasmodists16 spasmolytic20 bronchospasm23 laryngospasm20 spasmolytics21 antispasmodic20 blepharospasm24 bronchospasms24 laryngospasms21 spasmodically23 antispasmodics21 blepharospasms25

How to use SPASM in a sentence

• Fink-Nottle was the victim of a sudden unfortunate spasm of nervousness, sir.
• At the inquest it was described somewhat untechnically as due to heart spasm.
• There were no sentries in sight, and with a new spasm of hope I crossed the open land and neared the little wicket gate that led to the jetty.
• A little spasm, half painful in its pleasure, contracted my chest, and then set out at a thrilling pace to the end of my fingers.
• Linceford, in a spasm of suppressed laughter herself, held her handkerchief to her lips with one hand, and motioned peremptory silence to the girls with the other.
• Out of the horizontal, he sank down and under, coming up with a new spasm of strangling.
• Her unfortunate son felt a spasm of pain when his mother struck him but he did not know what had hurt him and there was no visible wound.
• It lasted fourteen days with great violence, and was succeeded by attacks of convulsion and spasm.
• Every few minutes the poor beast had been seized with a spasm of pain, had first dashed forward as though to escape it and then endeavoured to lie down.
• He had watched her keenly in the hope of hearing a cry, or seeing some spasm of agony upon her face, but at last, with a curse, he dashed down her hand and strode from the hut.
• His face was deadly pale, with a spasm at his heart.
• Something like a spasm of fear and of pain shot quickly across his face, frightening her a little.
• Agony, which she had fought down wildly, seized her in a spasm.
• A spasm of resistance and rebellion seized and swept over her.
• The good people of England will not believe, that rest of body and mind is necessary for me! But, perhaps, this spasm may not come again these six months.
• She shook with a nervous spasm, studying me with a defiant look.
• The tea of twenty or thirty grains of tobacco introduced into the human body, for the purpose of relieving spasm, has been known repeatedly to destroy life.
• For the first time a horrible spasm of terror seized him.
• A spasm of wounded vanity would make him for the time as mean and selfish as other men are made by a frenzy of bodily fear.
• In a spasm of fright he dropped the lantern and delivered his blow in drawing the sword.
• David must be told of what he had done, and at that thought a spasm of fear contracted his heart.
• He whirled about in a spasm of terror, leaped forward in the dark, struck his head on the open window, and fell screaming and bleeding to the floor.
• You can get nothing more out of her, except in some spasm of madness.
• But because of that spasm of emotion the part of the astral body which is normally blue has been increased in size.
• There is a spasm on the cheek of the incumbent, whilst I sob loudly.
• I started with a sudden spasm, as a sound burst upon me, wild, ringing, dreadful.
• Suddenly a spasm of pain caught him, his head fell into the pillows, his muscles twisted, his arm about the neck of the kneeling boy tightened convulsively.
• His brief spasm of energy was the last effort of a strong will to uphold a sinking and exhausted body, and in half an hour he requested to be tied on his sledge.
• Suspicion deepened swiftly to conviction, and a spasm of indignation akin to frenzy took possession of the man.
• His hands slowly clenched, his muscles tightened, in a spasm of anguish.

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