MEANING
1. To shake with sudden strong involuntary contractions, or cause such movement.
2. To shake or disrupt something profoundly.
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Words that belong together
- body convulses
- convulsed with spasms
On the page
The figure began to convulse in the story.
The report described muscles that convulsed.
The clinician asked how long the body had convulsed.
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Word forms
- Base
- convulse
- Past tense
- convulsed
- Past participle
- convulsed
- Present participle
- convulsing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- convulse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are convulsing
- Present perfect
- have/has convulsed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been convulsing
- Past
- convulsed
- Past continuous
- was/were convulsing
- Past perfect
- had convulsed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been convulsing
- Future
- will convulse
- Future continuous
- will be convulsing
- Future perfect
- will have convulsed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been convulsing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: convulse; convulses; convulsed; convulsed; convulsing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: convulses.
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