Crossword-Solution: PAROXYSM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paroxysm | n. | The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. |
| Paroxysm | n. | Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PAROXYSM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Emotional outburst as of rage | 1 answer |
| Sudden attack (of, eg, laughter) | 1 answer |
| Sudden burst of emotion | 1 answer |
| Uncontrollable laugh seizure. | 1 answer |
| Violent outburst | 7 answers |
| Emotional outburst | 8 answers |
| A SUDDEN OUTBURST | 10 answers |
| A SUDDEN OUTBURST OF ANGER | 10 answers |
| Sudden outburst | 11 answers |
| convulsion | 17 answers |
| Spasm | 23 answers |
| Tantrum | 24 answers |
| Jitter | 30 answers |
| Fit | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMAECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PAROXYSM (5)
All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
The atrocious woman, in the paroxysm of her wrath, not content with murdering her victim, literally mangled her face, and broke her breast bone.
And for the big blow, have you never heard, doctor, that a maniac in his paroxysm may have the strength of ten men?” The doctor drew a deep breath and then said, “By golly, I believe you’ve got it.” Father Brown had fixed his eyes on the speaker so long and steadily as to prove that his large grey, ox-like eyes were not quite so insignificant as the rest of his face.
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
She never mentioned the name of Boris in his presence, for it was sure to throw him into a paroxysm of fury.
Quotes with PAROXYSM (3)
May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there — not in heaven — not perished — where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer — I repeat it till my tongue stiffens — May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable pa…
A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.
... I day dream. Therefore, I am the queen, of my thoughts. Though thirteen, I drift, between, one conception, to another. I create opinions, liberate dilemmas, assert convictions, deal paroxysm, create perfections.” I am neither, a thinker, nor a,perceiver, I am a Day Dreamer...
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1964–2022).