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# convulsion

«convulsion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sudden, violent shaking of the body that you cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (convulsions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A convulsion is a sudden, violent shaking of the body that you cannot control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/#m1)

2) (informal) «Convulsions of laughter» means fits of laughing that you cannot stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a fit that shakes a creature or a person; in fun talk, a funny act that throws the room into laughing fits

### examples

- The snake trembled in violent convulsions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/#x1)
- The doctor said the boy had convulsions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/#x2)
- The clown threw the whole hall into convulsions of laughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «convulsion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/convulsion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.