throbbing
Other forms: throbbings; throbbingly
If something's pulsing like a heartbeat, it's throbbing. When you stop and catch your breath after a long run, you might hear your throbbing pulse in your ears.
An injury that's throbbing with pain pounds with regular beats: "I have a throbbing headache." Music is often described as throbbing too, beating and pounding with deep bass notes from a club or a car — or maybe your ceiling is vibrating with the throbbing music your upstairs neighbors are playing. To throb is to pulsate, and experts guess the word itself stems from the sound and feeling of pulsating blood.
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pounding or beating strongly or violently“a throbbing pain”“the throbbing engine of the boat”synonyms:
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an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
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a sound with a strong rhythmic beat“the throbbing of the engines”type of:soundthe sudden occurrence of an audible event
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