0 past simple and past participle of convulse --
1 to (cause to) shake violently with sudden uncontrolled movements: --
Simultaneously, the earth we embraced so dependently convulsed in violent paroxysm.
Occasionally, the victim had convulsed for an hour or two after the rope trick before dying.
Five of the subjects convulsed, and the others recovered when returned to normal pressure following the appearance of acute symptoms.
But this becoming, what labors will attend the change, how convulsed with birth-pangs!
Although his windpipe was torn and obstructed by his destroyed larynx, the condemned man continued with rasping breaths and convulsed on the rope.
Europe was convulsed for generations by the conflict of religion.
We do not know what will be the state of the world, whether it will be convulsed or calm.
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.
