Verbiage - May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 11:00AM
Rob Dean in Saved by the Bell, Spasm, Verbiage

Today's word of the day is Spasm: 

spasm

[spaz-uhm]
–noun 
  1. Pathology . a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm)  or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm) 
  2. any sudden, brief spell of great energy, activity, feeling, etc.
Origin:  
1350–1400; Middle English spasme  < Latin spasmus  < Greek spasmós  convulsion, derivative of spân  to draw a sword or cord, wrench (off), convulse


—Synonyms
2.  fit, storm, flash, spurt.

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