as in shaking
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
convulsing with silent laughter as the inept pianist blithely played on
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convulsing
Noun
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The second-most-common neurodegenerative disorder, Parkinson's disease manifests via such motor problems as impaired balance, slow movement, muscle stiffness and tremors.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Most Popular Most Popular Parkinson’s tremors disappear with use of machine that sends heat waves to the brain Parkinson’s tremors disappear with use of machine that sends heat waves to the brain Chris Perkins: Dolphins weren’t a dumb team in 2024, but . .—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Your ruler Mercury will also station retrograde in Sagittarius—your seventh house of partnerships—on November 9, revealing all the ways your desires for independence may be shaking things up with up your closest allies and enemies.—
Roya Backlund,
StyleCaster,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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McCaul said lawmakers should brace themselves for Trump floating major foreign policy ideas off the cuff, something that’s already causing agitation on Capitol Hill.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
5 Jan. 2025
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Well, to go back to lame culinary school lingo, because agitation promotes crystallization.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appétit,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Most quakes occur near to the boundary of these plates, the result of the slow buildup of stress in the crust.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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The startling quake in an unexpected area should serve as a wake-up call for businesses, schools and homeowners everywhere to consider having safety protocols for earthquakes, the resident said.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Both instruments measure how much a star wobbles as it’s tugged back and forth by an orbiting planet.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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Tom Bill, head of U.K. residential research at Knight Frank, said the combined prints showed that wobbles had begun to emerge in the housing market after the government’s Oct. 30 Budget cast doubt over the country’s economic outlook.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But the value lies less in their individual action and more in their ability to serve as a powerful jolt to our collective moral imagination — to shift the Overton window, the range of behaviors that seem possible.—
Sigal Samuel,
Vox,
21 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the result was a disarmingly smooth jolt and recovery, then back on the gas for higher-speed action.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Not literal strings, of course—but tiny loops or snippets of vibrating energy.—
Tom Siegfried,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Dec. 2024
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Because everything is moving, everything vibrating in one great dance that is the act of becoming.—
Jennifer Harlan,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Valeria leaves guard duties to Ellen, a grandmother with a constant tremble in her hands from her MS.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2024
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Kaleena knew her fate before it was announced, teary-eyed and emotional as Kish, with a tremble in her voice, asked her and Alisha to pack their knives and go.—
Rachel Bernhard,
Journal Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2024
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