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Convulse

verb
(past & past part. convulsed; pres. part. convulsing)
1.
Make someone convulse with laughter.
2.
Be overcome with laughter.
3.
Move or stir about violently.  Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss.
4.
Shake uncontrollably.
5.
Cause to contract.
6.
Contract involuntarily, as in a spasm.





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"Convulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop, [Gives] What ragings must his veins convulse, That still eternal gallop! Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... thy arm! May Aetna's fires Convulse the land; to its foundation shake The groaning isle! May civil discord bear Her flaming brand through all the realms of Greece; And the whole race expire in pangs ...
— The Grecian Daughter • Arthur Murphy


Words linked to "Convulse" :   convulsion, express joy, press, express mirth, laugh, contract, compact, whip, agitate, convulsive, constrict, squeeze, amuse, slash, shake, compress


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