Thursday, April 9, 2009

paroxysm

paroxysm
  1. A random or sudden outburst (of activity).
    • «There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and take advantage of every blessed quirk in space and time to touch each other [...] » - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955
  2. A sudden recurrence of a disease.
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talk nineteen to the dozen

  to speak rapidly and without stopping

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