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Definition of convulsive in English: convulsiveadjective kənˈvʌlsɪvkənˈvəlsɪv Producing or consisting of convulsions. she gave a convulsive sob Example sentencesExamples - I could recognize that this is the emotional state I feel before I have those grand mal convulsive seizures that are what people think of when they think of epilepsy, but I don't.
- He pulled the flask out with a series of quick, almost convulsive movements.
- Ben could feel the trembling in his slender frame, see the convulsive hitch of his shoulders as he fought against sobs.
- Room's movements were becoming more erratic and convulsive, and he seemed to have entered a trance-like state.
- A female patient complains of dramatic mood swings, paralysis on one side of her body, hallucinations, convulsive seizures, and religious delusions.
- A rabbit in its last convulsive leap appeared briefly, and the white-haired one stepped briskly forward to pick it up.
- Everything is fluid and in the throes of convulsive movement; yet, like the struts on the vase, stout pillars anchor and arrest the flow.
- My daughter came running to meet us, and we showed her the fish, but as it slithered from the plastic carrier bag into which we had folded it, the jaws gave one last convulsive shudder and she was convinced it had tried to bite her.
- She awoke, her body protesting as she drew a convulsive breath and sat up.
- With that she stormed off leaving the rest of us rolling about in convulsive laughter.
- It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
- Devon struggled to speak through the convulsive shivering that wracked his body.
- Rush theorized that all disease arose from convulsive action in the blood vessels, which he treated by purging and bleeding his patients, and inducing vomiting.
- They had convulsive seizures, blasphemous screaming and trance-like state of mind.
- And so complete was the bodily shut-down, with rapid eye movement and convulsive twitching, that a fierce pinch of the skin or a prick with a needle did nothing to wake her.
- After a second or two the rabbits tumble into the light, their convulsive movements expressive of a primordial terror.
- His letters stirred Mr. Gladstone into a convulsive paroxysm of burning revolt against the barbarities they described.
Synonyms spasmodic, jerky, paroxysmal, violent, uncontrollable
Derivatives adverb My hands convulsively clenched, my teeth clamped together, my nostrils flared, my lips curled, and a red mist descended in front of my eyes. Example sentencesExamples - When Anne left, I'd wake up in the morning, and my eyes would just immediately fill up with tears, and I would start convulsively crying.
- While feverish attempts were made to locate the ambulance - hired for the tournament - the youngster remained lying in the ring for close to ten minutes jerking convulsively through laboured breathing.
- My scream flew up, bounced off my palate, and was swallowed convulsively, never quite managing to escape.
- I can still see how it looked in the rear view mirror with its tail convulsively thrashing around.
Rhymes compulsive, impulsive, propulsive, repulsive Definition of convulsive in US English: convulsiveadjectivekənˈvəlsɪvkənˈvəlsiv Producing or consisting of convulsions. she gave a convulsive sob Example sentencesExamples - And so complete was the bodily shut-down, with rapid eye movement and convulsive twitching, that a fierce pinch of the skin or a prick with a needle did nothing to wake her.
- A female patient complains of dramatic mood swings, paralysis on one side of her body, hallucinations, convulsive seizures, and religious delusions.
- Devon struggled to speak through the convulsive shivering that wracked his body.
- Everything is fluid and in the throes of convulsive movement; yet, like the struts on the vase, stout pillars anchor and arrest the flow.
- He pulled the flask out with a series of quick, almost convulsive movements.
- Room's movements were becoming more erratic and convulsive, and he seemed to have entered a trance-like state.
- His letters stirred Mr. Gladstone into a convulsive paroxysm of burning revolt against the barbarities they described.
- She awoke, her body protesting as she drew a convulsive breath and sat up.
- Rush theorized that all disease arose from convulsive action in the blood vessels, which he treated by purging and bleeding his patients, and inducing vomiting.
- After a second or two the rabbits tumble into the light, their convulsive movements expressive of a primordial terror.
- I could recognize that this is the emotional state I feel before I have those grand mal convulsive seizures that are what people think of when they think of epilepsy, but I don't.
- A rabbit in its last convulsive leap appeared briefly, and the white-haired one stepped briskly forward to pick it up.
- With that she stormed off leaving the rest of us rolling about in convulsive laughter.
- Ben could feel the trembling in his slender frame, see the convulsive hitch of his shoulders as he fought against sobs.
- It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
- My daughter came running to meet us, and we showed her the fish, but as it slithered from the plastic carrier bag into which we had folded it, the jaws gave one last convulsive shudder and she was convinced it had tried to bite her.
- They had convulsive seizures, blasphemous screaming and trance-like state of mind.
Synonyms spasmodic, jerky, paroxysmal, violent, uncontrollable
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