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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - spastic

 
 

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Spastic

spastic
(spastics) Someone who is spastic is born with a disability which makes it difficult for them to control their muscles, especially in their arms and legs. This word could cause offence, and most people now refer to someone with this disability as having cerebral palsy. ADJ • A spastic is someone who is spastic. N-COUNT
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   I. adjective  Etymology: Latin ~us, from Greek spastikos drawing in, from span  Date: 1753  1.  a. of, relating to, characterized by, or affected with or as if with spasm a ~ patient  b. characterized by hypertonic muscles ~ cerebral palsy  2. spasmodic 2 a ~ influx of data  • ~ally adverb  II. noun  Date: 1896 one suffering from ~ paralysis ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  adj. & n. --adj. 1 Med. suffering from cerebral palsy with spasm of the muscles. 2 offens. weak, feeble, incompetent. 3 spasmodic. --n. Med. a spastic person. Derivatives spastically adv. spasticity n. Etymology: L spasticus f. Gk spastikos pulling f. spao pull ...
Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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  1. больной спастическим параличом 2. мед. судорожный; спазматический; спастический 3. мед. страдающий спастическим параличом spastic child —- ребенок, пораженный спастическим параличом 4. нерегулярный, хаотичный spastic influx of data —- нерегулярное поступление сведений ...
Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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  adj. med. спастический ...
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  ~ adj 1 slang an offensive word meaning stupid or lacking in skill, used especially by children 2 old-fashioned having cerebral palsy, a disease that prevents control of the muscles - spastic n ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  - 1753, from L. spasticus, from Gk. spastikos "afflicted with spasms," lit. "drawing, pulling," from span "draw up." Derogatory slang shortening spaz first recorded 1965. SPAT (1) - "petty quarrel," 1804, Amer.Eng., of unknown origin. ...
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