Convulsion
/kənˈvʌlʃən/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
"1850-1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects."
- 2 a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval wordnet
- 3 An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.
- 4 a violent disturbance wordnet
- 5 Violent turmoil.
"Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis."
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- 6 violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles wordnet
- 7 Hysteric in nature.
- 8 a sudden uncontrollable attack wordnet
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More examples"Convulsion followed convulsion, till they closed in death, without her being able to utter a word explanatory of the fatal scene."
Etymology
From Latin convulsiō, from convellō.