Convulse
verb
To shake violently.
The earthquake convulsed the city.
Often appears as...
- convulse with laughter
- convulse in pain
verb
To cause to shake violently.
The news convulsed the nation.
Often appears as...
- convulse the city
- convulse the market
verb
To cause to laugh uncontrollably.
His jokes convulsed the audience.
Often appears as...
- convulse with laughter
- convulse the crowd
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To shake violently.
The earthquake convulsed the city.
Often appears as...
- convulse with laughter
- convulse in pain
verb
To cause to shake violently.
The news convulsed the nation.
Often appears as...
- convulse the city
- convulse the market
verb
To cause to laugh uncontrollably.
His jokes convulsed the audience.
Often appears as...
- convulse with laughter
- convulse the crowd
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shaking
Used to describe something being shaken due to force or impact.
The building convulsed during the demolition.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turmoil
Can be used metaphorically to express strong emotional disturbances.
She convulsed with grief after hearing the tragic news.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shaking
Used to describe something being shaken due to force or impact.
The building convulsed during the demolition.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turmoil
Can be used metaphorically to express strong emotional disturbances.
She convulsed with grief after hearing the tragic news.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Shaking
Used to describe something being shaken due to force or impact.
The building convulsed during the demolition.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turmoil
Can be used metaphorically to express strong emotional disturbances.
She convulsed with grief after hearing the tragic news.
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Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
getting a little graphic here but blood pouring out of his head and convulsing and a rock had come from above and hit him and giving him a 21 centimeter skull fracture and a completely depressed his skull and again it was it was a point of realization that what we're doing yes it's very important but it also is very
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured. But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned. But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
getting a little graphic here but blood pouring out of his head and convulsing and a rock had come from above and hit him and giving him a 21 centimeter skull fracture and a completely depressed his skull and again it was it was a point of realization that what we're doing yes it's very important but it also is very
Video examples
Sherwin Nuland: How...
He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured. But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned. But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.
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Tom Shales
American Writer
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
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Jack Reed
American Politician
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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Groucho Marx
American Comedian
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
Quote examples
Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.
Quote examples
Tom Shales
American Writer
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
Quote examples
Jack Reed
American Politician
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
Quote examples
Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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Groucho Marx
American Comedian
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
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