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US
/ˈθɹɑbɪŋ/
]
[ UK /θɹˈɒbɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /θɹˈɒbɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a sound with a strong rhythmic beat
the throbbing of the engines -
an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
he felt a throbbing in his head
ADJECTIVE
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pounding or beating strongly or violently
a throbbing pain
the throbbing engine of the boat
How To Use throbbing 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.
- 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.
- Popular Italian tenor sings opera arias and throbbing ballads. Times, Sunday Times
- His head was throbbing and he was faint from hunger.
- After a few minutes, there is indeed a warm glow to accompany the throbbing pain. Times, Sunday Times
- She awoke slowly, her head throbbing as it had the time she had taken a whole tankard of ale on a dare from the boys.
- He was not thinking of the girl beside him; only something seemed to swell and grow and swell within his heart; it was all the torture of his days, weary hopes and weary disappointment, scorn rankling and throbbing, and the thought "I had rather call the devils my brothers and live with them in hell. The Hill of Dreams