Read full poem →Yet doth thine inmost soul with yearning teem.
--Oh, what a spasm shakes the dreamer's heart!
"_I, too, but seem._"
Dictionary Entry
A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. spasmspasm musclespasm muscularspasm arterialspasm hemifacial
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Poetry examples for “spasm”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Which overflows in notes of liquid gladness,
Filling the sky like light! How many a spasm
Read full poem →But Helen clung to her brother's arm,
And her own spasm made her shake.
Read full poem →Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the
death-spasm sweating,
An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,