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throb
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ verb ] pulsate or pound with abnormal force
Synonyms Examples "my head is throbbing" "Her heart was throbbing" Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest , but it was an objective pain , in_no_way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; it was like the bandaged wound on the back of his head which occasionally throbbed ; it was merely another part of his weakness . |
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[ verb ] expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
Examples "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)And the valley stretched endlessly out ahead , scorched and baked and writhing in its heat , until it vanished into the throbbing wall of fiery orange brown haze . |
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[ noun ] (medicine) a deep pulsating type of pain
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