paroxysm in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

paroxysm in the PONS Dictionary

paroxysm Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

paroxysm of joy
exaltación f de júbilo
paroxysm of rage
paroxismo de rabia
American English

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His health began to fail and started suffering from paroxysms dyspnoea, with a sensation of impending suffocation, and was described as utter prostration of all muscular power.
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And we all thought it was going to be a tedious 0-0 draw that would send most of us into paroxysms of boredom.
au.eurosport.com
He is given credit for the first description of acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, and use terms such as, exacerbation, relapse, resolution, crisis, paroxysm, peak, and convalescence.
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No wonder the slightest hint of a rise in fees sends voters into paroxysms of fury.
www.independent.co.uk
There was a day when such a lapse would have sent him into paroxysms of defensive laughter.
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All the things that could go wrong would normally have me in a paroxysm of terror.
www.odt.co.nz
The paroxysms were accompanied by swaying motions of the ground which caused all the houses of the town to totter.
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Its main task is to display the especial sensation of a paroxysm, crisis and spiritual degradation which are present at consciousness of the person living in the totalitarian validity.
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It's on the edge of exploding; in the 1840s it underwent a massive paroxysm that was just short of a supernova event.
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Women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept as, in paroxysms of frenzy, they hurled themselves against the police lines.
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