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Vibrate   /vˈaɪbreɪt/   Listen
verb
Vibrate  v. t.  (past & past part. vibrated; pres. part. vibrating)  
1.
To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
2.
To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
3.
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration. "Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may... impress a swift, tremulous motion." "Star to star vibrates light."


Vibrate  v. i.  
1.
To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
2.
To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
3.
To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
4.
To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.





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... horrid sound, resembling that of an infinite number of chariots driven fiercely forward, the wheels rattling and the thongs cracking. Soon after this, a most dreadful earthquake ensued; so that the whole track upon which we stood seemed to vibrate, as if we were in the scale of a balance that continued wavering. This motion, however, soon grew more violent, and being no longer able to keep my legs, I was thrown prostrate upon the ground. In the mean time, the universal ...
— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux
... to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance, and hoards Of torn desires, broken joys; records Of all a bruised life's maimed ...
— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell
... wakened by the conductor calling "Marietta." The goal was reached. We were in the center of the Confederacy, with our deadly enemies all around. Before we left, we were to strike a blow that would either make all rebeldom vibrate to the center, or be ourselves at the mercy of the merciless. It was a time for solemn thought; but we were too weary to indulge in speculations of the future. We retired to bed in the Tremont House, and were soon ...
— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger
... himself to the ground and pressed the trigger of his unfamiliar weapon. He felt it vibrate in his hand, and saw the Hadji's head and shoulders turn black and begin to crumble. Before he could take aim at the other men, Barrent's gun was wrenched violently from his hand. The Hadji's dying shot had creased the end of ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley
... the incline; each wave differing in the height to which it reaches, and none of them alike, washing with it minute fragments of stone and gravel, mere specks which vibrate to and fro with the ripple and even drift with the current. Will these fragments, after a process of trituration, ultimately become sand? A groove runs athwart the bottom, left recently by the keel of a skiff, recently ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies


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