English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "stuiptrekkings" is 'n skielike, gewelddadige, onreƫlmatige beweging van die liggaam, wat veroorsaak word deur onwillekeurige sametrekking van spiere en soms gepaardgaande met verlies van bewussyn. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n gewelddadige steurnis of omwenteling, of 'n skielike en intense emosionele vertoning of reaksie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Instead of continuing its discontented growls, or manifesting any further signs of anger, the whole of its shaggy body shook violently, as if agitated by some strange internal convulsion.
  2. It appeared that he had suffered some convulsion, some delirium, and that he had fallen that the fall had accelerated his end, according to the prognosis of Frere Sylvain.
  3. With a sudden convulsion he pitched forward, catching himself on his hands.
  4. A violent convulsion passed through Pikus and he heaved his man away, pitching over backward.
  5. The fit lasted two hours then, more helpless than an infant, and colder and paler than marble, more crushed and broken than a reed trampled under foot, he fell back, doubled up in one last convulsion, and became as rigid as a corpse.