Usually means: Occurring or done in bursts.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word spasmodic:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. spasmodic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spasmodic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spasmodic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spasmodic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spasmodic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spasmodic: Wordnik
  7. spasmodic: Wiktionary
  8. spasmodic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spasmodic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spasmodic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spasmodic: Dictionary.com
  12. spasmodic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Spasmodic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. spasmodic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. spasmodic: Rhymezone
  16. Spasmodic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. spasmodic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. spasmodic: Free Dictionary
  19. spasmodic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. spasmodic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. spasmodic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. spasmodic: Wordnik

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  1. spasmodic: Legal dictionary

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  1. spasmodic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -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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