| 单词 | throbbing |
| 释义 | throbbing (once / 1005 pages) adjn If something's pulsing like a heartbeat, it's throbbing. When you stop and catch your breath after a long run, you might hear your throbbing pulse in your ears. An injury that's throbbing with pain pounds with regular beats: "I have a throbbing headache." Music is often described as throbbing too, beating and pounding with deep bass notes from a club or a car — or maybe your ceiling is vibrating with the throbbing music your upstairs neighbors are playing. To throb is to pulsate, and experts guess the word itself stems from the sound and feeling of pulsating blood. WORD FAMILYthrobbing: throbbingly, throbbings+/throb: throbbed, throbbing, throbs USAGE EXAMPLES“Especially after the game, it just started throbbing.” Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) When the areas are rewarmed and the spasm resolves, blood flow resumes, often causing tingling or throbbing. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) The album closer, “I Feel It Coming,” one of a few collaborations with Daft Punk, avoids the title track’s throbbing approach. New York Times(Nov 28, 2016) 1adj pounding or beating strongly or violently a throbbing pain the throbbing engine of the boat Syn rhythmic, rhythmical recurring with measured regularity 2n an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) he felt a throbbing in his head Syn|Hyper pounding, throb beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart 3n a sound with a strong rhythmic beat the throbbing of the engines Hyper sound the sudden occurrence of an audible event |
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