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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



... for a time while the Rio Negro, with engines throbbing slowly, crept towards the coast. The land breeze brought off a steamy heat and a sour smell. The long undulations were wrinkled by small waves, and a thin low haze that obscured the moon spread across the water. Kit, ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss
... I am not ill; only my nerves have had a great, a terrible shock; they seem all unstrung, and my temples are throbbing ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley
... have sunk our national pride to the 42-centimeter guns? No! Only firm will and determination to achieve, that is to say, German power, distinguishes the host of warriors now embattled on the five huge fields of blood from the race of the poets and thinkers. Their brains, too, yearn back, throbbing for the realm of the muses. Before the remains of the Netherland Gothic, before the wonders of Flemish painting, their eyes light up in pious adoration. From the lips of the troops that marched from three streets into the parade plaza in Brussels there burst, ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... window looking down on Broadway and his nervousness disappeared as he gazed into the throbbing thoroughfare below him. From where he was sitting John could see that the mayor had a fond look in his eyes as he watched the roaring traffic of the principal street of the great city that had honored him by electing ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson
... John, coolly enough, although his heart was throbbing. "It's horribly fuggy in here, and I've Jambi[26] to do; but I'm not going till you give me your word that ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell


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