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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pulsate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Marley's mellow reggae music pulsates from the speakers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between these, a hundred jellyfish as delicate and as translucent as rose petals pulsate like butterflies.
▪ It was a harrowing din, a cascade of furious voices merged into a single pulsating shout.
▪ Lava lamps adorned the stage, while watery, pulsating lights flashed behind them.
▪ The phone carried vibrations from the stereo, pulsating rhythms and those fake Milli Vanilli voices.
▪ The thumping, pulsating music shook the kitchen walls.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulsate

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.

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body.
--E. Darwin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pulsate

1741, back-formation from pulsation, from Latin pulsatus, past participle of pulsare "to beat against, strike upon" (see pulsation). Related: Pulsated; pulsating; pulsatile.

Wiktionary
pulsate

vb. 1 to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat 2 to quiver, vibrate, thrill 3 to produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity

WordNet
pulsate
  1. v. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" [syn: throb, pulse]

  2. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: beat, quiver]

  3. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube" [syn: pulse]

Usage examples of "pulsate".

The pulsating red letters were the only thing that marred the clean efficiency of his office.

Grasping the pulsating head of the moster troll cock, she shoved the spurting thing into her mouth, swallowing huge gobs of the stuff as she seemed to cum endlessly.

Then came the pulsating monotone of the frogs from a far-off pool, the harsh cry of an owl from an old tree that overhung it, the splash of a mink or musquash, and nearer by, the light step of a woodchuck, as he cantered off in his quiet way to his hole in the nearest bank.

It would have been simpler, more reassuring, could one have seen a wheel turn, a valve lift and fall, but there was little to note within save an odd play of light, a photic anomaly, now at the fringes of the cubicle, now like beads of bright water at its edges, pulsating, corruscating, then in small threads darting across the heavy plastic to join other threads, other ripples of light across the cubicle.

Fitzpatrick motioned to the mass of gyrating, swirling bodies pulsating to the salsa beat on the ballroom floor.

Snowden for the wrong wound, the yawning, raw, melon-shaped hole as big as a football in the outside of his thigh, the unsevered, blood-soaked muscle fibers inside pulsating weirdly like blind things with lives of their own, the oval, naked wound that was almost a foot long and made Yossarian moan in shock and sympathy the instant he spied it and nearly made him vomit.

The minute vessels when paralysed offer inefficient resistance to the force of the heart, and the pulsating organ thus liberated, like the main-spring of a clock from which the resistance has been removed, quickens in action, dilating the feebly resistant vessels, and giving evidence really not of increased, but of wasted power.

Eleven stories high, the Biltmore Hotel dominates the green triangle of Pershing Square and pulsates with the smell of curiosity everywhere.

Slapping the bolts of their blasters, the sec men rushed out of the cave to find the sergeant running around the clearing with a translucent pulsating mass on his back.

They sipped champagne, while the Carib Queen pulsated gently under them.

To my left, I felt Fiddleback as a hard-edged crystal pulsating with dark colors and darker emotions.

The gasolier trembled, the floor throbbed, the little goblin dwelling pulsated as if it were alarmed.

Kate found that the new positioning enabled her to slide her vagina more easily up and down the heatedly pulsating length of his lust hardened cock, and soon established a natural rhythm that gradually increased in tempo until she was bucking on top of him crazily as if she was riding a steer or a Limousin bull.

With the pulsating fear of the coming of the Moloch beating in the depth of his thoughts, he quickened his pace and ran from the room.

As though the whole thing was pulsating, like a culture of myocardial cells.