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convulse
[kuhn-vuhls]
verb (used with object)
to shake violently; agitate.
to cause to shake violently with laughter, anger, pain, etc.
to cause to suffer violent, spasmodic contractions of the muscles.
convulse
/ əˈʌ /
verb
(tr) to shake or agitate violently
(tr) to cause (muscles) to undergo violent spasms or contractions
informalto shake or be overcome (with violent emotion, esp laughter)
(tr) to disrupt the normal running of (a country, etc)
student riots have convulsed India
Other 51Թ Forms
- convulsedly adverb
- convulsible adjective
- convulsibility noun
- unconvulsed adjective
- Dzˈܱ adverb
- DzˈܱԱ noun
- Dzˈܱ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of convulse1
Example Sentences
On Saturday, President Donald Trump used his authority to call in the California National Guard, something typically decided by a state's governor, as a second day of protests convulsed the city.
I’m well past that point; some of his stories and novels I’ve read dozens, even hundreds of times, and they can still make me convulse in laughter.
She remains recumbent for an entire number, singing to a skeleton, before the bones around her reveal themselves as dancers in masks, convulsing to the humongous bassline synths of “Disease.”
And so, first of all, we minimized the slavery controversy which convulsed the nation from the Missouri Compromise down to the Civil War.
At the time, China was convulsed by civil war.
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