Convulsion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONVULSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles
• uncontrollable laughter
• a sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body, caused by involuntary contraction of muscles and associated especially with brain disorders such as epilepsy, the presence of certain toxins or other agents in the blood, or fever in children
• a violent social or political upheaval
• An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
• Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.
• a sudden uncontrollable attack
• violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles
• a violent disturbance
• a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval
• an earthquake or other violent or major movement of the earth's crust

Words related to CONVULSION

convulsionary21 convulsions16

Words that contain CONVULSION

convulsions16 convulsional17 convulsionary21 convulsionist18 convulsionists19 convulsionaries20

How to use CONVULSION in a sentence

• The first return of life, after a swoon, was commonly a convulsion, dangerous at once to the party himself and to all around him.
• In moments of fierce convulsion, as at present, the North, like a restive steed, may contest its supremacy.
• People were thoughtful, serious, and silent, as on the eve of some great convulsion.
• And if through some unexpected convulsion of Nature 51 Broadway should topple over, Mr.
• They would have been the greatest losers, had there been a social convulsion, for they would have lost everything.
• These internal fires had wrought a new convulsion, and the labours and hopes of years had vanished in a moment.
• During this grand and terrific elemental convulsion our little boat was driven powerless before the blast.
• There would be such a convulsion of the family as had never taken place since she was born.
• Had all the frightful dynamic of an earthquake abruptly focused in his being, the fearful convulsion of his muscles could scarcely have been greater.
• Lazare that strange, confused rumors of an impending convulsion in Paris first penetrated within our prison walls.
• The young man turned away to hide the sudden convulsion that seemed coming to his own face.
• In prehistoric time some convulsion of nature broke the African continent all along its spine, and formed this system of lakes.
• But it will be brought about by the gradual culmination of the means and processes which God is now visibly carrying forward, and not by any sudden convulsion of miracle.
• As the boys were not more than human, it was only natural that they should halt until the convulsion had passed.
• There have been great epochs of political convulsion in the conflicts with external powers and in civil struggles and revolutions.
• Though it was the defeat of our arms and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin.
• But above all, the intrigues of Lambert, who was now roused from his retreat, inflamed all those dangerous humors, and threatened the nation with some great convulsion.
• I was awakened from a deep slumber by an extraordinary convulsion in the ship.
• All our earthly time is filled up with a passionate convulsion in a struggle for life and light.
• What would she do in the coming convulsion? I shuddered and tormented myself with many imaginings.
• A slight shock, the dull noise of three balls which penetrated the flesh, a last cry, a convulsion of agony, proved to d’Artagnan that the would-be assassin had saved his life.
• Exempt from domestic convulsion and at peace with all the world, we are left free to consult as to the best means of securing and advancing the happiness of the people.
• Such were those divisions in the history of the earth when a violent convulsion in the surface of the globe and a change in its inhabitants ushered in a new aspect of things.
• As we drew out to sea in the small steamship, Mont Pelee was in the throes of a terrible convulsion.
• After each root-race has run its course, the earth has always been prepared by a great geological convulsion for the next.
• In this convulsion has perished all that makes up what we call civilization, yet not all men then living.
• The sob was succeeded by a convulsion of painful laughter, that would go on the more Cornelia tried to stop it.

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