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spasm
noun
- a sudden, convulsive, involuntary muscular contraction: a is persistent and sustained, and a is one of a series of relatively brief contractions alternating with relaxations
- any sudden, violent, temporary activity, feeling, etc.
intransitive verb
to undergo a spasm
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