convulsion
[noun]
Synonyms: spasm, contraction, cramp, fit, paroxysm, seizure

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Related Words: cataclysm, disaster, quaking, rocking, shaking, tottering, trembling

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con‧vul‧sion /kənˈvʌlʃən/ noun [countable]

1. a shaking movement of your body that you cannot control, which happens because you are ill Synonym : seizure:
His temperature was very high and he went into convulsions.

2. [usually plural] a great change that affects a country:
the 19th-century political convulsions in France

3. be in convulsions to be laughing a lot

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

convulsion
noun
ADJ. violent | slight | sudden
VERB + CONVULSION go into, have, suffer The patient lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
cause
CONVULSION + VERB shake sb A sudden convulsion shook him, and he fell to the ground.

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