Convulse

Definition: Convulse

Convulse

Verb

1. Make someone convulse with laughter; "The comedian convulsed the crowd".

2. Be overcome with laughter.

3. Move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed".

4. Cause to contract, as of muscles.

5. Of muscles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "convulse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Note: Convulse \Con*vulse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Convulsed; present participle verb or noun Convulsing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Convulse

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Amusement

Verb: amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Pain

Wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate, crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side.

Physical Pain

Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).

Violence

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Crosswords: Convulse

If we can stimulate that nerve, the bowel will convulse, expelling the entire worm society. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

tund (appal, appall, beat up, dandle, dangle, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, shake, shake up, switch, wag, waggle, wield), dredh (cast, curl, friz, frizz, roll, shake, spin, twist, vibrate, wriggle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هز (agitate, bob, concuss, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏تشنج (convulsion, cramp, flutter, squirm, tense), ‏زلزل, ‏عنف (blow up, check, chide, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏شنج (cramp). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свивам (bend, constrict, contract, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), треса (shake). (various references)

Czech

zmítat (agitate, toss), zachvátit křeèí. (various references)

Farsi 

تکان دادن (Budge, Hitch, Hustle, Impulse, Jar, Jolt, Jounce, Move, Shake, Startle, Stir, Twiddle, Wag, Wiggle), دچارتشنج کردن . (various references)

French

se convulser, bouleverser, ébranler (concuss). (various references)

German

erschüttern (agitate, cast doubt upon, jar, jerk, jolt, move, rock, shake, shatter, shock, sicken, stir, to shake, to shake (shook, to shock, unsettle, upset). (various references)

Greek 

συσπώ (contort, velicate), συγκλονίζω (appal, appall, shake), συνταράσσω, προξενώ σπασμούσ (cramp). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזעזע (agitate, jar, jolt, shake, shock, stagger, startle, stun), ל�"רעי�" (shake, shiver, thrill). (various references)

Hungarian

rázkódik (to bump along), felforgat (disarrange, invert, make mess, subvert, to muck, to rummage, to subvert, to topsy-turvy, topsy turvy). (various references)

Indonesian

mengocok perut, kejang (convulsion, cramp, crick, spasm). (various references)

Italian

agitare (agitate, become upset, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, lash, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references)

Manx

co-leaystey (convulsion). (various references)

Pig Latin

onvulsecay

Portuguese

convulsionar, agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk), abalar (affect, concuss, depolarise, jar, jolt, move, scamper, shake, shock, stir, toss, unfix, unsettle). (various references)

Romanian

convulsiona, clãtina (rock, shake, stagger, stir, sway, totter, wobble), zgudui (concuss, hitch, jog, jump, shake, shake up, shock), zdruncina (concuss, jog, jolt, shake, shatter, shock, stagger, undermine, unstring, weaken). (various references)

Russian 

потрясать (appal, appall, boggle, shake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgrčiti (contract, shrivel), potresti (agitate, jar, shake, shock, upset). (various references)

Spanish

convulsionar. (various references)

Swedish

uppskaka (discompose, shock, upset). (various references)

Turkish

sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), kıvrandırmak (agonize, make suffer, pinch), allak bullak etmek (obfuscate). (various references)

Ukrainian

викликати конвульсії, битися в конвульсіях, потрясати (shake). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "convulse": convulsed, convulses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Convulse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: convol, sconvols. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: counsel, unclose.

-2 letters: clones, clonus, cloven, cloves, coleus, consul, covens, ensoul, novels, oscule, ounces, ovules, sloven, uncles, venous.

-3 letters: clone, clons, close, clove, clues, coles, cones, conus, coven, coves, enols, lenos, locus, louse, loves, luces, lunes, nevus, noels, novel, onces, ounce, ousel, ovens, ovule, scone, socle, solve, uncle, uncos, voces, voles.

-4 letters: cels, clon.

+1 letter: convulsed, convulses.

+2 letters: conclusive, consultive, convolutes, convulsive, involucres.

+3 letters: cavernously, conventuals, novaculites.

+4 letters: coevolutions, conclusively, consultative, convulsively, countervails, inconclusive, nonexclusive, renovascular, vesiculation, voicefulness.

+5 letters: cavernicolous, consecutively, consumptively, convolvuluses, equivocalness, vesiculations, vulcanologies.