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throb

verb
/θɹɒb/UK/θɹɑb/CA/θɹɔb/

Etymology

From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.

  1. inherited from throbben

Definitions

  1. To pound or beat rapidly or violently.

    • Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.

  2. To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

    • I have a throbbing headache.

  3. To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.

    • The bass in the song made the entire room throb with energy.
    • Having been married and divorced, Suzanne throbs with attitudes of strength, liberation and equality.
    • This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.

      • He could feel a dull throb in his head from the tension.
      • My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs, presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at throb. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at throb. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at throb

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA