Definition of "spasms" [spasms]

• Plural form of spasm. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spasm. (verb)

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• "It had during its continuance brought on breathlessness on exertion, and what she called spasms or "grippings at the heart," no doubt the basis of her uneasy feelings in left hypochondrium."
• "A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia - spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth."
• "You can be in spasms and the doctors can't tell you why."