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fits and starts: repeated bursts of activity; "they worked in fits and starts"

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jactitation collapse: (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness; (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)

shuddering collapse: shaking convulsively or violently

chorea collapse: any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs

variability collapse: the quality of being subject to variation

shakes collapse

quavering collapse: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice"

shivering collapse

palsy collapse: a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor; affect with palsy

quaking collapse

vibration collapse: the act of vibrating; a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively; "that place gave me bad vibrations"

trembling collapse

fluctuation collapse: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"; a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"

fibrillation collapse: act or process of forming fibrils; muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination

quivering collapse

shaking collapse: the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements; a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

intermittence collapse: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

unevenness collapse: the quality of being unbalanced; the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity

inconstancy collapse: the quality of being changeable and variable

by chance collapse: without advance planning; "they met accidentally"

nonuniformity collapse: the quality of being diverse and interesting

occasionally collapse: now and then or here and there; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention"

wobble collapse: an unsteady rocking motion; move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"

discontinuity collapse: lack of connection or continuity

here and there collapse: in or to various places; first this place and then that; "he worked here and there but never for long in one town"; "we drove here and there in the darkness"

eccentricity collapse: strange and unconventional behavior; a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path; (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; "a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity"

variably collapse: with variation; in a variable manner or to a variable degree; "it will be variably cloudy"

infrequently collapse: not many times; "in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room"

jerkily collapse: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"

willy nilly collapse

hit or miss collapse

intermittently collapse: in an intermittent manner; "intermittently we questioned the barometer"

at random collapse

off and on collapse: not regularly; "they phone each other off and on"

irregularly collapse: in an irregular manner; "the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened"; in an irregular manner; "her letters arrived irregularly"; in an irregular manner; "the patient is breathing irregularly"; having an irregular form; "irregularly shaped solids"

fitfully collapse: in a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully"

spasmodically collapse: in spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"; with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"

sporadically collapse: in a sporadic manner; "he only works sporadically"

unevenly collapse: in an uneven and irregular way; in an unequal or partial manner; "profits were distributed unevenly"; "angry at being dealt with so unequally"

haphazardly collapse

roughness collapse: harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"; a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

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