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Throbbing   /θrˈɑbɪŋ/   Listen
Throbbing

adjective
1.
Pounding or beating strongly or violently.  "The throbbing engine of the boat"
noun
1.
An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart).  Synonyms: pounding, throb.
2.
A sound with a strong rhythmic beat.


Throb

verb
(past & past part. throbbed; pres. part. throbbing)
1.
Pulsate or pound with abnormal force.  "Her heart was throbbing"
2.
Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.  Synonyms: pulsate, pulse.
3.
Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement.  Synonyms: shiver, shudder, thrill.





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"Throbbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... said scarcely anything as they drove to their hotel. Charmian lay back in the taxi-cab with shut eyes, her temples throbbing. But when they were in their sitting-room she came close ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... hesitated. An anxiety, such as he had never known before, had crept over him; and, what had never before happened to him, his heart beat with fear. "That was just wanting to me," he murmured. "I have become a white-livered coward, whose legs are trembling, and whose heart is throbbing! What am I afraid of, then? Is that wrong which I am about to do? My heart has never acted thus even in the storm of battle. What does it mean? Bah! it is folly; no attention should be paid to it. ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... hung in golden ringlets about her face and neck. The warm blood tinted her cheeks as she met the ardent gaze of the Dahcotah, and Chaske could not ask her who she was. How could he speak when his heart was throbbing, and every pulse ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman
... sudden, face to face with an angel whose eyes were like Mary's. He said to me, "Go on, still; the truth is at the end, waiting for you to find it." I burst out crying, for the angel had Mary's voice as well as Mary's eyes, and woke with my heart throbbing and my cheeks all wet. What is the meaning of this? Is it always superstitious, I wonder, to believe that ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... sleep will linger, When the spirit, all forlorn, Shuts its ear against the singer, And the rustle of the corn Round the sad old mansion sobbing Bids the wakeful maid recall Who it was that caused the throbbing Of her bosom ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang


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