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1
a painful sudden tightening of a muscle
- he suffers terribly from back spasms
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2
a sudden intense expression of strong feeling
- a spasm of love that he had never experienced before
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“Spasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spasm. Accessed 25 Sep. 2021.
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