avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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(verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
(verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
(verb) cause to contract | - |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
(verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
pulse | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
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(verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
(verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
repulse | (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
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(verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
(verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |