Usually means: Shaken violently by muscle contractions.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulsed: Merriam-Webster
  2. convulsed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. convulsed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Convulsed, convulsed: Wordnik
  5. convulsed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. convulsed: Wiktionary
  7. Convulsed, convulsed: Dictionary.com
  8. convulsed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Convulsed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Convulsed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. convulsed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. convulsed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. convulsed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convulsed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulsed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. convulsed: Medical dictionary

(Note: See convulse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (convulse)

verb:  (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
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