Pulsating

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pulsate \Pul"sate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pulsated}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Pulsating}.] [L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat,
     strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See
     {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pulse}, v.]
     To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate
           long after it is taken from the body.    --E. Darwin.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pulsating
       adj : expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of
             the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating
             heart" [syn: {beating}, {pulsing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "pulsating":
     beating, cadenced, cadent, ceaseless, chattering, constant,
     continual, in numbers, in rhythm, incessant, machine gun, measured,
     metric, oscillating, palpitant, perennial, perpetual, pitapat,
     pulsatile, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, rapid, regular, repeated,
     rhythmic, staccato, steady, stuttering, sustained, throbbing,
     unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unintermitted, unintermittent,
     unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying,
     vibrating