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Throb

🔄 Synonyms of "Throb"

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
thrillnoun	(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
shuddernoun	(intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
poundnoun	A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
pulsenoun	(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
poundingnoun	An act in which something or someone is pounded.
throbbingnoun	Beating or pounding strongly.
pulsateverb	(intransitive) To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
shivernoun	To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Throb"

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Word	Definition
pulsateverb	(intransitive) To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
pulsenoun	(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
shivernoun	To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
poundingnoun	An act in which something or someone is pounded.
shuddernoun	(intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
thrillnoun	(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
poundnoun	A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
pangnoun	(often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
achenoun	(intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
quopnoun	(rare, intransitive) To throb or beat.
thumpnoun	The sound of such a blow; a thud.
drumnoun	(music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
beatnoun	A stroke; a blow.
palpitatenoun	(intransitive) To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.
threshnoun	(transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
tobeat	(obsolete) To beat excessively.
bolternoun	A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
berrynoun	A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
quobnoun	(dialectal) A marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand.
dribnoun	(obsolete) A drop.