Usually means: Occurring or done in bursts.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. spasmodic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spasmodic: Merriam-Webster
  3. spasmodic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spasmodic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spasmodic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spasmodic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spasmodic: Wordnik
  8. spasmodic: Wiktionary
  9. spasmodic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spasmodic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spasmodic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spasmodic: Dictionary.com
  13. spasmodic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Spasmodic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. spasmodic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. spasmodic: Rhymezone
  17. Spasmodic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. spasmodic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. spasmodic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. spasmodic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. spasmodic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. spasmodic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. spasmodic: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spasmodic: Legal dictionary

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  1. spasmodic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spasmodic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -spasmodic, spasmodic: Medical dictionary

(Note: See spasmodically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
adjective:  Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
adjective:  Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
adjective:  Erratic or unsustained.
adjective:  Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
noun:  A medicine for suppressing spasms.

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