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UK
/θɹˈɒb/
]
[ US /ˈθɹɑb/ ]
[ US /ˈθɹɑb/ ]
VERB
-
pulsate or pound with abnormal force
Her heart was throbbing
my head is throbbing - tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
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expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it
NOUN
- a deep pulsating type of pain
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an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
he felt a throbbing in his head
How To Use throb In A Sentence
- ‘I want to come back when it's a bit quieter,’ I shouted over the din of amplified music, throbbing diesel generators and rattling joy rides.
- Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
- His foot was throbbing madly, but he gave the door another kick, muttering more curses under his breath.
- I had a throbbing abscess under a large section of bridgework and root canal work was the next day's projected treat.
- Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
- There were dozens of glow-in-the-dark stars throbbing there, throwing their unnatural green light down to her.
- The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
- THE next time you suffer toothache or throbbing back pain, blame it on evolution. The Sun
- He was also aware of a throbbing under his right rib.
- ‘I'm coming,’ he muttered, under his breath as he pulled on his bathrobe.