convulse
verb (used with object)
to shake violently; agitate.
had convulsed
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past perfectof convulse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Good Friday Agreement - signed on April 10, 1998 - largely ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed that had convulsed Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
From Reuters ● Apr. 8, 2023
The Good Friday Agreement was a peace deal that largely ended the "Troubles", three decades of violence that had convulsed Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
From Reuters ● Mar. 12, 2023
The three decades-long War of the Roses, waged between two rival branches of Richard’s House Plantagenet, had convulsed England in years of chaos and misery.
From Time ● Feb. 5, 2013
That idea was later fortified by Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of American exceptionalism, which suggested that the country was exempt from the bitter conflicts — class, religion, imperial ambition — that had convulsed Europe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010
The rational explanation laid blame on the forces of change that during this time had convulsed Chicago.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
