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Pulsated

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.

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pulsated

vb. (en-past of: pulsate)

Usage examples of "pulsated".

From the air the animals were only short, thick blotches superimposed on the texture of the grass, blotches which pulsated, becoming longer and shorter as legs extended or gathered for the next leap, mounts and hounds distinguishable from one another only by the presence of riders, the riders themselves reduced to mere excrescences, warts upon the pulsating lines.

This one was a cherry red and pulsated with postmortem muscle spasms, so that it looked almost like the primary stages of a clot forming in the bloodstream.

Now and then, lightning played through the higher layers of the fog, pulsated in reflection across the water.

Cannon shells lashed and tore, and bombs exploded and rockets swooshed, and the crack of twenty-three-mBiflhime0twer antiaircraft guns pulsated through the trees.

Above the throb of piston engines at full throttle came the wail of jet engines pulsated by beating rotors.

The next day, he found a new sword-cane at the pawnshop in the Fillmore, and he also found a case of cutlery and kitchen utensils that pulsated with red light.

And meanwhile, all about my sister, about her face and her body and her now uncovered parts, there still shimmered and pulsated those inexplicable bands and waves of various colors.

The Terran word pulsated at them, black letters on orange, large, plain capital letters, underĀ­lined, with an exclamation point.

Now, faced with searing death, she reverted to her true form, a globe of pure energy that pulsated and dwindled even as I watched it.