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US
/kənˈvəɫʃən/
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[ UK /kənvˈʌlʃən/ ]
[ UK /kənvˈʌlʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval
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a violent disturbance
the convulsions of the stock market - violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles
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a sudden uncontrollable attack
convulsions of laughter
a fit of coughing
a paroxysm of giggling
How To Use convulsion In A Sentence
- Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
- The only treatment is symptomatic and supportive therapy and using sedatives to control convulsions.
- When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
- Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
- No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.
- Her ordeal began in November when she started having fits and convulsions despite no previous history of health problems.
- A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth.
- Febrile convulsions can be frightening for parents, especially as they look like epileptic fits.
- Are his lame slapstick antics intended to send us into convulsions of laughter?
- We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which we are unable to assign a meaning.
