Spasmodic

/spæzˈmɑ.dɪk/

Synonyms for "spasmodic" (256 found)

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Collocations

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spasmodic contractionspasmodic coughspasmodic dyskinesiaspasmodic movementspasmodic painspasmodic tremor

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more spasmodicmost spasmodic

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Sample sentences

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Dorothea darted instantaneously from the window; Will followed her, seizing her hand with a spasmodic movement; and so they stood, with their hands clasped, like two children, looking out on the storm, while the thunder gave a tremendous crack and roll above them, and the rain began to pour down.

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The conversation had roamed in a desultory spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic.

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“That,” said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; “that . . . very clear indeed.”

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The ordinary croup of infants is spasmodic croup, and is very rarely dangerous, although the symptoms seem very alarming.

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