Noun: convulsion
| Singular | convulsion |
| Plural | convulsions |
Sample Sentences
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1850-1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words
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That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.
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Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis.
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It would seem as if calm were necessary to convulsion; for the tranquillity of the last few months was again to be disturbed by political commotion. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 97–98:]
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In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate. [2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:]
Nouns inflected like convulsion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin convulsiō, from convellō. See: Latin Nouns '
convulsiō'.
Verbs referencing "convulsion"
Finnish Nouns
konvulsio.