Crossword-Solution: SPASM 5 letters, 268 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Spasm	v. t.	An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
Spasm	v. t.	A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SPASM	anagram	SAMPS, SPAMS

We have 268 clues for the answer “SPASM”

Clue	Answers
A real jerk	1 answer
Afterthought (Texas patriot Houston)	1 answer
An actual jerk	1 answer
Awkward shiver	1 answer
Back attack	1 answer
Back twinge, for example	1 answer
Brief burst of activity.	1 answer
Brief spell of activity.	1 answer
Burst of emotion	1 answer
Cause of a hiccup	1 answer
Cause of hiccups	1 answer
Cause of writer's cramp	1 answer
Cause of writer's cramp, often	1 answer
Convulsive action.	1 answer
Cramp or twitch	1 answer
Cramp, e.g.	1 answer
Cramp, for instance	1 answer
Cramp, say	1 answer
Crick in one's neck, e.g.	1 answer
Crick in the neck, e.g.	1 answer
Eye twitch, e.g.	1 answer
Fit of activity	1 answer
Flareup of feeling	1 answer
Flash of energy	1 answer
Fleeting muscle problem	1 answer
Group of jerks	1 answer
Herkey-jerkey motion	1 answer
Herky-jerky motion	1 answer
Hiccup cause	1 answer
Hiccup's cause	1 answer
Hiccup, e.g.	1 answer
Hiccup, for example	1 answer
Hiccup, for instance	1 answer
Hiccup, for one	1 answer
Hypertonia symptom	1 answer
Involuntary contraction of a muscle.	1 answer
Involuntary jerky movement	1 answer
Involuntary muscle action	1 answer
Involuntary muscle contraction	1 answer
Involuntary muscular movement	1 answer
Involuntary wink, for example	1 answer
It can cause one to be a real jerk	1 answer
It's involuntary	1 answer
It's uncontrollable	1 answer
Jerk or twitch	1 answer
Knee jerk, perhaps	1 answer
Leg cramp	1 answer
Leg cramp, e.g.	1 answer
More than a twitch	1 answer
Muscle action	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SPASM (5)

Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds, Convulsions, Epilepsies, fierce Catarrhs, Intestin Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs, Dropsies, and Asthma’s, and Joint-racking Rheums.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Finally, on the top corridor, which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was seized with a spasm of merriment.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

Jennings talked of Edward’s affection, it cost her only a spasm in her throat.—Such advances towards heroism in her sister, made Elinor feel equal to any thing herself.

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994

What exasperation, what positive misery, to be so near to it and yet to know that it was irrevocably, irretrievably lost! A spasm of anguish passed through him.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

That ‘s an exploit for spiders, not for young sculptors of promise.” Roderick wiped his forehead, looked back at the wall, and then closed his eyes, as if with a spasm, of retarded dizziness.

Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with SPASM (3)

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Staring at my smoldering hot date, her husband stands tall for the first time in a decade, adjusting his toupee while flashing a horrid green toothy grin that looks more like a Steven Hawkins muscle spasm. In his hands, a frightened beer bottle is choked with the steel grip of a sexually repressed Preacher.

Brett Tate

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Neil Gaiman Brief Lives

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 496 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).