spasming

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noun

A spasm.

RareScrabble 13

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of spasm
nounspasming (plural spasmings)

plural spasmings

  1. A spasm.

    She made only one sound: the rhythmic “Hmph. Hmph. Hmph” of air being shoved from her lungs by weighted urgent spasmings.

    1989, Jack Stephens, Triangulation, page 97
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