convulsionar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.vuw.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
convulsionar is spelled C-O-N-V-U-L-S-I-O-N-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 169,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Convulsionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to convulse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “provocar agitações, excitar à revolução”.
What does convulsionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to convulse
- 2
to have a seizure
- 3
to seize (to have a seizure)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. provocar agitações, excitar à revolução
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of convulsionar
- convulsiono first-person present singular
- convulsionei first-person preterite singular
- convulsionado participle past
- convulsionares infinitive second-person singular
- convulsionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- convulsionardes infinitive plural second-person
- convulsionarem infinitive plural third-person
- convulsionando gerund
- convulsionados masculine participle past
- convulsionada feminine participle past
- convulsionadas feminine participle past
- convulsionas indicative present second-person
- convulsiona indicative present singular
- convulsionamos first-person indicative plural
- convulsionais indicative plural present
- convulsionam indicative plural present
- convulsionava first-person imperfect indicative
- convulsionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce convulsionar?
- Brazil /kõ.vuw.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.vuʊ̯.si.oˈna(h)]
- Brazil /kõ.vuw.sjoˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to convulsionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is convulsionar in Portuguese?
convulsionar appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).