convulse

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con·vulse /kənˈvʌls/ verb

1 [intransitiveI]SHAKE if your body or a part of it convulses, it moves violently and you are not able to control it 〔身体或身体某部分〕剧烈震动，剧烈抖动

He sat down, his shoulders convulsing with sobs.

他坐下来，因抽泣肩膀剧烈抖动。

2. be convulsed with laughter/anger etc LAUGHto be laughing so much or feel so angry that you shake and are not able to stop yourself 笑得全身抖动/气得发抖等

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be convulsed with laughter/anger etc• All of us were convulsed with laughter.• From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter.

3 [transitiveT] if something such as a war convulses a country, it causes a lot of problems or confusion 〔战争等〕使〔国家〕剧烈震动，使猛烈震撼

A wave of nationalist demonstrations convulsed the country in 1919.

1919年，民族主义游行示威的风潮震动了这个国家。

Examples from the Corpus

convulse• She was suddenly convulsed by a hacking cough.• In 1992, the city was convulsed by rioting and demonstrations.• In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.• Veins convulse everywhere in my arm, so shot full of liquid I am sure they will burst.• The body convulsed, flopping around the roof in a series of uncoordinated half-somersaults, leaving a trail of blood like footprints.• The area around you began to convulse like an epileptic ward.• Her feral body takes its own route, grinding, convulsing, swallowing.• The building that had fairly convulsed with activity was now deceased.• Samuel was convulsed with fury at this new evidence of skulduggery, resolved that no holds would be barred now.• All of us were convulsed with laughter.

Origin convulse