Word Meanings - CONVULSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. 2. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro

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An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. 2. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. Times of violence and convulsion. Ames. Syn. -- Agitation; commotion; tumult; disturbance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVULSION)

• Pang
• Paroxysm
• throe
• agony
• convulsion
• smart
• anguish
• pain
• twinge

Related words: (words related to CONVULSION)

• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• AGONY
  1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
• PAROXYSMAL
  Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. -- Par`ox*ys"mal*ly, adv.
• CONVULSIONARY
  Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.
• CONVULSIONAL
  Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. Lamb.
• ANGUISH
  Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31. Note: Rarely used in the
• SMARTLY
  In a smart manner.
• SMARTNESS
  The quality or state of being smart.
• THROE
  perhaps influenced by Icel. a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. to 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton. 2. A tool
• CONVULSIONIST
  One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.
• SMART
  schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my
• CONVULSION
  An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. 2. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro
• SMARTLE
  To waste away.
• SMARTEN
  To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. W. Black.
• PAROXYSM
  The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot. 2. Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms
• NOSESMART
  A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
• LANGUISH
  languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases.
• HEXAGONY
  A hexagon. Bramhall.
• LANGUISHNESS
  Languishment.
• LANGUISHMENT
  1. The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak. 2. Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.
• LANGUISHINGLY
  In a languishing manner.
• LANGUISHING
  1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. 2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.