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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a seizure.

Etymologies

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seizure +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • The paddle-arms began to twitch in erratic seizurelike spasms.

    Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997

  • The nurses haven't charted any seizurelike behavior.

    Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

  • Karen Feld's lawsuit explains that she had long suffered from stress-induced seizurelike symptoms from previous brain injuries.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • She says she erupted into a seizurelike episode and began swearing in "Tourette's-like speech."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • They would pay him $35 to go to the local mall and perform his “Dahmer shtick,” which amounted to him pretending to have cerebral palsy it seems his mother’s interior decorator suffered from the condition, prompting Dahmer to mimic the spastic, seizurelike movements.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • They would pay him $35 to go to the local mall and perform his “Dahmer shtick,” which amounted to him pretending to have cerebral palsy it seems his mother’s interior decorator suffered from the condition, prompting Dahmer to mimic the spastic, seizurelike movements.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • They would pay him $35 to go to the local mall and perform his “Dahmer shtick,” which amounted to him pretending to have cerebral palsy it seems his mother’s interior decorator suffered from the condition, prompting Dahmer to mimic the spastic, seizurelike movements.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • They would pay him $35 to go to the local mall and perform his “Dahmer shtick,” which amounted to him pretending to have cerebral palsy it seems his mother’s interior decorator suffered from the condition, prompting Dahmer to mimic the spastic, seizurelike movements.

    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003

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