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/kənˈvʌls/ · verb
(intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort..
He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his.
The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war.
But while he was convulsing all London with laughter, he was fast falling a victim to consumption.
For Lucifer, as Lord of Fire, was thought to suffer the most terrible pangs whenever the element of fire, over which he presided, was convulsed or agitated.
Use convulse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Convulse means (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort..
Common synonyms include toss, thrash, thresh, slash.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his.
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