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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person suffering from spastic paralysis
adjective relating to or characterized by spasm
adjective suffering from spastic paralysis
originLearned borrowing from Latin spasticus, from Ancient Greek σπαστικός (spastikós, “drawing in”). By surface analysis, spasm + -tic. Cf. French spastique and see also spasm.
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