Convulsion Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-vŭlshən
Disturbance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. agitation
  2. turbulence
  3. commotion
  4. upheaval
  5. turmoil
  6. misarrangement
Antonyms:
  1. peace
  2. harmony
Spasm
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. paroxysm
  2. fit
  3. attack
  4. seizure
  5. throe
  6. spasm
  7. agitation
  8. commotion
  9. contraction
  10. disturbance
  11. eclampsia
  12. epilepsy
  13. grand-mal
  14. furor
  15. laughter
  16. orgasm
  17. petit-mal
  18. shaking
  19. tottering
  20. tumult
  21. upheaval
  22. uproar
A momentous or sweeping change
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cataclysm
  2. revolution
  3. upheaval
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. convulsionary
  2. convulsive
  3. eclamptic
  4. orgasmic
  5. paroxysmal
  6. spasmic
  7. spasmodic

Words Related to Convulsion

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Convulsion Sentence Examples

  • Any noise, a draught of air or a touch may cause a convulsion.

  • Then low-level electric current is passed through the brain to cause a brief convulsion.

  • The great convulsion of the Revolution was drawing to a close, and everything was in an unsettled condition.

  • Ordinary doses have no effect upon the temperature but in overdose the temperature rises during a convulsion.

  • If the king or queen could either have had the political genius of Frederick the Great, or could have had the good fortune to find a minister with that genius, and the good sense and good faith to trust and stand by him against mobs of aristocrats and mobs of democrats; if the army had been sound and the states-general had been convoked at Bourges or Tours instead of at Paris, then the type of French monarchy and French society might have been modernized without convulsion.

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