to pulse
20
4.2
- verb
- /pʌls/
:
palpitar
- The jellyfish glowed, its body pulsing gently as it floated through the water.
- pulse with energy
Also, if you hold it down, it'll just kind of start pulsing without you needing to hold it.
- Also, if you hold it down, it'll just kind of start pulsing without you needing to hold it.
- So the LED pulses on fast, so fast we can't see it blinking.
- And when I got out of my car, the air was pulsing.
- So if we can measure how often the star pulses, we know what its actual brightness is.
- It's really this devotion, this, this, this love affair with life, the love affair with the wonder of life and what is pulsing through each one of us in all life.
- Yeah, because apparently your butt hole pulses.
Examples
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And then the plane itself appeared in a huge sky pulsing with heat.
Fiction book (1991) -
The chronometer ticked slowly forward, the warning light pulsing more strongly as sunset approached.
Fiction book (1990) -
Maybe that thing is pulsing up and down.
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Her youth will pulse through your veins, my darling.
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Feel it pulsing through your body?
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It's like the air is pulsing.
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The blood started pulsing in my ears the way it does whenever I'm scared.
Fiction book (1990) -
The heat flowed and pulsed from one part of his body to another.
Fiction book (1992) -
There's like a rage pulsing through his entire body.
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When they passed the Graysons', though, they could faintly hear music pulsing through the walls of the house.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
13
4.1
To beat or move in a steady rhythm
10
3.5
To make strong regular beats you can feel in your chest
8
3.1
To beat or pulse strongly, often with pain and strong feeling
Moving back and forth in a regular way
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
2
4.4
A small device that clips to a finger or earlobe to measure blood oxygen
- Specialized
1
6.5
A device that makes short electric signals to test or measure circuits
- Specialized
A way of changing a series of pulses, for example their length or strength, to send information
- Specialized
An electronic part that makes or controls short electrical signals at exact times
- Specialized
A device that lets only electrical pulses above a set level pass
- Specialized
A way of sending information by changing the time between short signals
- Indian
A climbing plant grown for its edible seeds and animal feed in dry areas
- Specialized
A device that tests concrete by sending and measuring very high sound pulses
- Specialized
A tool that sends sound waves through concrete to check its strength without breaking it
How Rhythmic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb pulse comes from Latin pulsare 'to beat', so when something pulses it moves or changes with a steady 'beat', like a heart or a light.