Usually means: Shakes violently due to contractions.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulses: Merriam-Webster
  2. convulses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. convulses: Vocabulary.com
  4. convulses: Wordnik
  5. convulses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. convulses: Wiktionary
  7. convulses: Dictionary.com
  8. convulses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. convulses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. convulses: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. convulses: 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.
▸ Also see convulse


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