Pulsate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To expand and contract rhythmically; beat.
  • verb-intransitive. To quiver; vibrate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
  • v. To quiver, vibrate, thrill.
  • v. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To beat or throb, as the heart or a blood-vessel; contract and dilate in alternation or rhythmically, as the heart in systole and diastole, the disk of a jellyfish in swimming, the vacuoles in some protozoans, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
  • v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
  • v. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
  • Verb Form
    pulsated    pulsates    pulsating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat    thump    pound    create    make    produce    move   
    Cross Reference
    vibrate   
    Form
    pulsated    pulsating    pulsator    pulsatory    pulsation    pulsatile   
    Same Context
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