convulse

Other forms of convulse

past tense

convulsed·

present participle

convulsing·

third person

convulses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about convulse

What does convulse mean?

convulse means "make someone convulse with laughter". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in convulse?

convulse has 2 syllables: con-vulse. The stress falls on "vulse".

What is another word for convulse?

Close synonyms include thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is convulse a common word?

convulse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.