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Plural of spasm

regular plural

The plural of spasm is spasms.

Forms of spasm

Singularspasm /ˈspæz.m̩/
Pluralspasms
Countablecountable

Spasms in a sentence

  • Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.
  • I hear a rustling in the bushes off to my right, and my trigger finger spasms.2006 March 29, Richard Daughty, 321gold. From the entry rustling
  • This season, Johnson's back spasms returned after five games and he underwent surgery again. . . .1989 December 30, Frank Litsky, “Giants' Johnson Practicing Again”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Aug 2013. From the entry push it
  • It was warm there too in the last icy spasms of winter.1967, New South African Writing - Issue 4, page 50. From the entry showerful
  • When the sky lightened in another of those diffuse spasms, I could see horsepucky pats, some of them fresh.2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804. From the entry horse pucky

Meaning of spasm

  1. noun A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
  2. noun A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
  3. noun A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.

Full definition of spasm

Questions about the plural of spasm

What is the plural of spasm?
The plural of spasm is spasms.
Is spasm countable?
Spasm is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spasm (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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