spasm

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
    — Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.
  2. A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
  3. A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
    — He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.
动词 v.
  1. To produce and undergo a spasm or series of spasms.

词形变化

spasms plural spasms present,singular,third-person spasming participle,present spasmed participle,past spasmed past

词汇关系

衍生词
angiospasm arteriospasm blepharospasm bronchospasm cadaveric spasm cardiospasm cheirospasm colpospasm cystospasm dactylospasm enterospasm esophagospasm gastrospasm geniospasm graphospasm hemispasm laryngospasm myospasm neurospasm ophthalmospasm pharyngospasm phrenospasm pylorospasm spasm band spasmic spasmogen spasmogenic spasmoid spasmology spasmolysis spasmophilia spasm war vasospasm xyrospasm
相关词
spasmodic spastic

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
词源 2
From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
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