0 past simple and past participle of convulse
1 to (cause to) shake violently with sudden uncontrolled movements:
When she smiles or sings her mouth is drawn up to her ear, with a look of a person convulsed with pain.
It is said that it is difficult to learn to bicycle on a plain constantly convulsed with earthquakes.
It is impossible for trade and industry to continue if the medium in which they are conducting their negotiations is constantly convulsed by financial earthquakes.
He may be convulsed with laughter because he has either been looking at the wrong accounts or making the wrong calculation on the capital assets.
In tests, caged foxes convulsed, retched and showed obvious signs of distress before death occurred—but that is all right to those who want a ban.
The county council's proposals have convulsed the local communities.
A whole half of the world is convulsed by revolutionary change.
I refer to the whole frenetic desire for constitutional and institutional reform which has convulsed the politics of this country for the past two years.
