See convulse on Wiktionary
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1 30", "code": "es", "english": "se", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to suffer violent uncontrollable contractions of the muscles", "word": "convulsionar" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1988, Carroll Stuhlmueller, Rebuilding with Hope: A Commentary on the Books of Haggai and Zechariah, page 12:", "text": "The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To be beset by political or social upheaval." ], "id": "en-convulse-en-verb-MOo1bLAC", "links": [ [ "beset", "beset" ], [ "upheaval", "upheaval" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive, figurative) To be beset by political or social upheaval." ], "tags": [ "figuratively", "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "40 5 54", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "28 12 60", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with 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