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pulsate

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Verb (intransitive)
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pul=sate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb pulsate has 3 senses

  • pulsate(v = verb.motion) pulse, throb - expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
  • is one way to beat, pound, thump
    Derived forms noun pulsation3, noun pulse2, noun pulse3
    Sample sentences:
    The crowds pulsate in the streets
    The streets pulsate with crowds
  • pulsate(v = verb.motion) beat, quiver - move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
  • is one way to move
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  • pulsate(v = verb.creation) pulse - produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
  • is one way to create, make, produce
    Derived forms noun pulsation1, noun pulse1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

CIDE DICTIONARY

pulsatev. i. [L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat, strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pulse, v.].
     To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.  [1913 Webster]
    "The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pulsate, v.intr.
1 expand and contract rhythmically; throb.
2 vibrate, quiver, thrill.

Derivative
pulsation n. pulsator n. pulsatory adj.
Etymology
L pulsare frequent. of pellere puls- drive, beat

THESAURUS

pulsate

alternate, be here again, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, cycle, drum, fluctuate, flutter, go pitapat, hammer, intermit, oscillate, palpitate, pant, patter, pitter-patter, pound, pulse, pump, quiver, reappear, recur, reoccur, repeat, return, reverberate, revolve, roar, roll, roll around, rotate, ruffle, sound a tattoo, splatter, splutter, sputter, throb, thrum, thud, thump, tick, ticktock, turn, undulate, vibrate, wheel, wheel around

ROGET THESAURUS

pulsate

Periodicity

VB recur in regular order, recur in regular succession, return, revolve, come again, come in its turn, come round, come round again, beat, pulsate, alternate, intermit.

Oscillation

VB oscillate, vibrate, librate, alternate, undulate, wave, rock, swing, pulsate, beat, wag, waggle, nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy, tick, play, wamble, wabble, dangle, swag, fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake, quiver, quaver, shake, flicker, wriggle, roll, toss, pitch, flounder, stagger, totter, move up and down, bob up and down, pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go, vacillate, teeter, brandish, shake, flourish.

Agitation

VB be agitated, shake, tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf, quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle, wriggle, wriggle like an eel, dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort, squirm, throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat, flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker, bustle, ferment, effervesce, foam, boil, boil over, bubble up, simmer, toss about, jump about, jump like a parched pea, shake like an aspen leaf, shake to its center, shake to its foundations, be the sport of the winds and waves, reel to and fro like a drunken man, move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard, agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt, jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

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