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| Main Entry: |
convulsion
 [kuhn-vuhl-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | algospasm, attack, contortion, contraction, cramp, epilepsy, fit, paroxysm, seizure, throe, tremor |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden dysfunction or disorder |
| Synonyms: | access, ailment, bout, breakdown, convulsion, disease, failure, fit, illness, paroxysm, relapse, seizure, spasm, spell, stroke, throe |
| Antonyms: | health |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe |
| Antonyms: | boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder |
Example Sentences
- He would lie motionless beneath a lily pad and then explode in a convulsion of movement if something tasty came by.
- But a political convulsion has now upended this picture.
- In the center of my college dining hall, a young man who worked in the kitchen had collapsed in a convulsion.
| Main Entry: | clamor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud cry; commotion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, babel, blare, brouhaha*, bustle, buzz, clinker, complaint, convulsion, din, discord, exclamation, ferment, hassle, hoo-ha, hubba-hubba, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurly-burly, lament, noise, outcry, pandemonium, protesting, racket, remonstrance, row, ruckus, shout, shouting, to-do, tumult, turmoil, upheaval, uproar, vociferation |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clamor, uproar |
| Synonyms: | ado, agitation, annoyance, backwash, ballyhoo, bedlam, big scene, big stink, brouhaha, bustle, clatter, combustion, confusion, convulsion, discomposure, disquiet, dither, excitement, ferment, fermentation, flap, flurry, furor, fuss, hell broke loose, hubbub, hurly-burly, insurgence, insurrection, lather, mutiny, outcry, pandemonium, perturbation, pother, racket, rebellion, revolt, riot, rumpus, stew, stir, to-do, tumult, turbulence, upheaval, uprising, upset, upturn, vexation, welter, whirl |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, peace, quiet, quietude, repose, silence, stillness, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, charley horse, circumscription, confinement, constipation, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, shooting pain, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, charley horse, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social commotion; mental confusion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anarchism, anarchy, brawl, bustle, chaos, clamor, complication, convulsion, discombobulation, discord, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, dither, entanglement, fight, flap, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hullabaloo*, imbroglio, insurrection, lawlessness, mayhem, misrule, mob rule, quarrel, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, rioting, ruckus, rumpus, static, strike, terrorism, tizzy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unruliness, uproar |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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