Adjective:

अंग-संकोच करनेवाला, ऐंठन-संबंधी, मरोड़-संबंधी, स्र्क-स्र्ककर झटके से होनेवाला, अकड़नेवाला,

spasmodic's Usage Examples:

Resuming operations in 354, Philip, in spite of temporary checks at the hands of Chares, and the spasmodic opposition of a VII.

Thirty years of friction followed, while the parliament, and the ruling classes tried in a spasmodic way to enforce the statute, and the peasantry strove to evade it.

His accession occurred in 1256, and henceforward Persia becomes after 600 years of spasmodic government a national unit.

Even Iranian kings in the last century B.C. found pleasure in composing, or listening to, Greek tragedies, and Herod the Great kept Greek men of letters beside him and had spasmodic ambitions to make his mark as an orator or author (Nicol.

Though spasmodic efforts were made to promote agriculture and open up communications the Sudan continued to be a constant drain on the Egyptian exchequer.

The extreme democratic and socialistic party made with French aid some spasmodic efforts to stir up a revolutionary movement, but they met with no popular sympathy; the throne of Leopold stood firmly based upon the trust and respect of the Belgian nation for the wisdom and moderation of their king.

The right-hand column, which had cut in behind the Italian 43rd Div., was making the task of the Austrian 50th comparatively easy, and brushing aside the spasmodic opposition of such small detachments as came in its way.

with his combination of vicious selfindulgence and spasmodic cruelty was no unfit representative of his age.

In cases of whooping-cough or any other condition in which there is spasmodic action of the muscular fibre in the bronchia definition which includes nearly every form of asthma and many cases of bronchitis - atropine is an almost invaluable drug.

In the spasmodic form the symptoms were of a nervous character.

Synonyms:

spastic, unsteady, convulsive,

Antonyms:

even, stable, unagitated, steady,