throb

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/θɹɒb/ (UK)
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/θɹɒb/ (UK) · /θɹɑb/ (US) · /θɹɔb/

Definition of throb

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
    “Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
    “Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.”
  2. (intransitive)To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
    “I have a throbbing headache.”
  3. (figuratively)To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
    “The bass in the song made the entire room throb with energy.”
    “Having been married and divorced, Suzanne throbs with attitudes of strength, liberation and equality.”
    “This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.”

noun

  1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.
    “He could feel a dull throb in his head from the tension.”
    “My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs, presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country”

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Etymology

From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.

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