Definition for Convulse:

• contract involuntarily, as in a spasm; " The muscles in her face convulsed"

Synonyms for Convulse:

• n.

  •
  • let down,
  • disadvantage,
  • inhibit,
  • bring up against,
  • plague,
  • burden,
  • embarrass,
  • count against,
  • throttle,
  • hold back.
  •
  • flounder.
  •convulse (noun)
  • thrash about,
  • slash,
  • thrash,
  • toss,
  • jactitate,
  • thresh about,
  • thresh.
  •disturb (noun)
  • torture.

• v.

  •agitate (verb)
  • concusses.
  •body (verb)
  • convulse.
  •cough (verb)
  • spitting up,
  • spits up,
  • spitted up,
  • clears throat,
  • spat up,
  • clearing throat,
  • cleared throat.
  •derange (verb)
  • perturb,
  • displace,
  • confuse,
  • disarrange,
  • meddle,
  • misplace,
  • dishevel,
  • mess,
  • mix up,
  • ruffle,
  • blur,
  • tumble,
  • roil,
  • ferment,
  • botch,
  • disorder,
  • rummage,
  • discompose,
  • tousle,
  • derange,
  • ripple,
  • dislocate,
  • roughen,
  • muddle,
  • whip,
  • clutter,
  • rumple,
  • whisk,
  • disorganize,
  • swirl,
  • upset,
  • capsize,
  • confound,
  • scramble,
  • tamper,
  • trouble,
  • hash,
  • muss,
  • scatter,
  • jumble,
  • mislay.
  •disturb (verb)
  • unsettle,
  • torment,
  • bother,
  • shake up,
  • writhe.
  •explode (verb)
  • blows to kingdom come,
  • flames up,
  • blows kingdom come,
  • blowing kingdom come,
  • dis charges,
  • dis charging,
  • blew kingdom come,
  • sets off,
  • letted go,
  • kablooeying,
  • dis-charge,
  • dis charge,
  • blowing to kingdom come,
  • kablooeyed,
  • dis-charging,
  • blow kingdom come,
  • flaring up,
  • flamed up,
  • blew to kingdom come,
  • flaming up,
  • kablooeys,
  • dis-charged,
  • flared up,
  • dis charged,
  • dis-charges.
  •gasp (verb)
  • in-spired,
  • in spiring,
  • in spire,
  • in-hales,
  • in spires,
  • re-spired,
  • in-hale,
  • in haling,
  • re-spiring,
  • re spiring,
  • fights for breath,
  • re-spire,
  • in-haled,
  • in spired,
  • in-spiring,
  • in haled,
  • re spired,
  • in-spire,
  • re spires,
  • catch one breath,
  • re spire,
  • re-spires,
  • in-spires,
  • in hale,
  • in-haling,
  • catch breath,
  • in hales,
  • fought for breath,
  • catch ones breath.
  •pain (verb)
  • ex-asperates,
  • ex asperate,
  • ex-cruciate,
  • cut quick,
  • dis-quieting,
  • ex asperating,
  • cut to quick,
  • cut the quick,
  • ex asperates,
  • cuts the quick,
  • hit where lives,
  • in-flame,
  • dis comforting,
  • dis-comforted,
  • cutting quick,
  • in flamed,
  • dis-comforting,
  • dis tress,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis-tressed,
  • ex cruciate,
  • ex-asperate,
  • hitting where one lives,
  • in-flamed,
  • in flame,
  • ex-asperated,
  • hits where lives,
  • dis-tresses,
  • cutting the quick,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-quieted,
  • dis quieted,
  • dis quiet,
  • hits where one lives,
  • dis-comforts,
  • cuts quick,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-quiet,
  • hitting where lives,
  • ex-asperating,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis comforts,
  • in-flames,
  • dis comforted,
  • dis quiets,
  • cutting to quick,
  • dis-tress,
  • in flaming,
  • dis tressed,
  • cuts to the quick,
  • cutting to the quick,
  • dis quieting,
  • cuts to quick.
  •quake (verb)
  • jittered.
  •rock (verb)
  • pushing and pull,
  • pushed and pull,
  • pushes pull,
  • rolling about,
  • pushing pull,
  • push pull,
  • pushed pull,
  • rolls about,
  • rolled about,
  • pushes and pull.
  •shake (verb)
  • sets motion,
  • commoves,
  • set motion,
  • succussing,
  • Commoved,
  • succusses,
  • succussed.
  •tickle (verb)
  • de lights,
  • Vellicated,
  • de lighting,
  • de-light,
  • de light,
  • vellicates,
  • ex cite,
  • ex-cite,
  • ex cited,
  • ex cites,
  • de-lighting,
  • ex-cites,
  • de-lights,
  • ex-cited,
  • de-lighted,
  • de lighted,
  • ex citing.
  •wriggle (verb)
  • extricated oneself,
  • extricating oneself,
  • extricates oneself.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • explode,
  • convulsion,
  • excite,
  • twitch,
  • contort,
  • shiver,
  • fidgety.
  •
  • hurt,
  • contortion.
  •
  • fidget,
  • stiffen,
  • jerk.
  •
  • shuffle,
  • jig.
  •
  • inside,
  • flutter.
  •
  • fit.
  •agitate
  • concussing,
  • concuss,
  • stir,
  • concussed.
  •cough
  • Hacking,
  • Hawked,
  • hawking,
  • clear throat,
  • Hacked,
  • spit up.
  •gasp
  • sniffles,
  • fight for breath,
  • sniffle,
  • fighting for breath,
  • sniffled,
  • sniffling.
  •pain
  • in flames,
  • cut to the quick,
  • anguished,
  • hit where one lives,
  • pained,
  • harrow.
  •rock
  • Rocking,
  • roll about,
  • push and pull.
  •tickle
  • Patted,
  • vellicate,
  • tickling,
  • Vellicating,
  • Patting.
  •wriggle
  • Snaking,
  • Zigzagged,
  • Wormed,
  • Zigzagging,
  • zigzags,
  • Snaked,
  • extricate oneself,
  • WORMS,
  • Worming.

Antonyms for Convulse:

• v.

  • disturb
    quiet, calm, order, soothe.

Convulse Sentence Examples:

• And if thou sayest that by speech thou canst convulse a crowd with laughter or tears, I rejoin that it is not thou who stirrest the crowd, it is the pathos of the orator, and his mirth.

• He knows that in you he receives the most powerful man in England; that your detention alone would convulse the country from one end of it to the other; and enable him, perhaps, to extort from Edward some measures dishonourable to us all.

Homophones for Convulse:

• commonplace, cannibalic, conflux, convalesce, cannibalize, complex, comb-like, campephilus, camouflage, cannibalise, Cuquenan Falls.

Hyponym for Convulse:

• v.

  • body
    express joy, laugh, express mirth.
  • communication
    amuse.
  • contact
    contract, press, compact, squeeze, constrict, compress.
  • motion
    shake, agitate.