spasm
nounHow many syllables in spasm?
There are 2 syllables in the word spasm.How to pronounce spasm:
Definition of spasm:
- spasm (noun):
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
- an involuntary and abnormal muscular contraction
- a sudden tightening of the muscles, over which one has no control
Synonyms for spasm:
blepharospasm
charley horse
charley-horse
contraction
convulsion
cramp
crick
graphospasm
kink
muscle spasm
myoclonus
opisthotonos
paroxysm
rick
stitch
symptom
tenesmus
throe
trismus
twitch
twitching
vellication
wrick
writer's cramp
Antonyms for spasm:
calm
calmness
completion
conclusion
continuity
end
ending
finale
finish
happiness
harmony
implosion
obedience
order
peace
peacefulness
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- sparkling
- sparger
- spareness
- spalpeen
- spaceship
- sowma
- sowing
- sowers
- southern
- souffle
- sotries
- sorreal
- sorcha
- sonnets
- sondous
- sonder
- something
- soma
- solvent
- soldiered
- snugging
- snowshoed
- snowballed
- snowball
- snoozing
- snooping
- snogged
- sniper
- sniffing
- snickers
- sneezing
- sneakers
- snauser
- smriti
- smoothies
- smoldered
- smirking
- smirched
- smelter
- smelling
- sluffing
- sloping
- slobbered
- slipsole
- slimmer
- sliker
- slices
- slicer
- sleuthing
- sleepwalk
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