English Dictionary

spasm

/ˈspæz.əm/

noun

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. / A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. / A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.

He experienced a painful spasm in his leg.

意味（1）

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.

Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.

意味（2）

A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.

意味（3）

A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.

He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.