Synonyms:
spasm, cramp, muscle_spasm
Meaning: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Usage examples
As if smitten by a sudden spasm
"Merely the 5,000,000 you have about you." Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.
A spasm of incredulity, a vast relief, and that sharp joy which comes of reaction chased each other across my mind.
A spasm of grief or unavailing regret crossed the judge's face as his head sank back again against the high back of his chair.
It was in the evening of that day that Lady Aoi was suddenly attacked by a spasm, and before the news of this could be carried to the Court, she died.
Every few minutes the poor beast had been seized with a spasm of pain, had first dashed forward as though to escape it and then endeavoured to lie down.
To this spasm of sanity and clarity in Michael's mind succeeded a spasm of the elemental terror; the terror of the animal in us which regards the whole universe as its enemy; which, when it is victorious, has no pity, and so, when it is defeated has no imaginable hope.