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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
throb
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a throbbing pain (=a pain that gets stronger and then weaker, in a steady continuous beat)
▪ I’ve still got this throbbing pain in my leg.
a throbbing/pounding/blinding headache (=a very bad headache)
▪ He had a throbbing headache, behind his nose and his eyes.
sb’s head hurts/aches/throbs
▪ Her head was throbbing and she needed to lie down.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
head
▪ Her head began to throb at once.
▪ My head is throbbing with pain.
▪ His head throbbed, and every tiny movement of his mouth stung.
▪ Her head was throbbing so vilely that the effort was too much.
▪ Her head throbbed, but she ignored it as she probed and pried.
▪ My head was throbbing from the drink.
▪ Madame Astarti's head was throbbing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ throbbing samba music
▪ By late afternoon my head was throbbing, and I couldn't see straight.
▪ Every morning I wake up with a throbbing headache.
▪ He limped heavily, nursing his throbbing ankle.
▪ I felt a throbbing pain in my left shin, and pulled up my trouser leg to see what was causing it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For ever, for ever, for ever: the reverberation throbbed in his bones.
▪ That night in bed, her hip throbbed.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the throb of her beating heart
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Detectable above the hubbub was the relentless throb of Christmas carols.
▪ He listened to the throb of the ship's generators, a noise he associated with every ship he had travelled on.
▪ I'd get this throb all over my body.
▪ Now I could hear the throb of impatience in his voice as he waited for the curtain to go up.
▪ She allowed herself the luxury of screaming, and yelped as each stroke ignited a searing throb in her outraged fundament.
▪ The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient, reined-in horsepower.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Throb

Throb \Throb\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Throbbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Throbbing.] [OE. [thorn]robben; of uncertain origin; cf. Russ. trepete a trembling, and E. trepidation.] To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

My heart Throbs to know one thing.
--Shak.

Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast.
--Shak.

Throb

Throb \Throb\, n. A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:

The impatient throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
throb

late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps meant to represent in sound the pulsation of arteries and veins or the heart. Related: Throbbed; throbbing. The noun is first attested 1570s.

Wiktionary
throb

n. A beating, vibration or palpitation vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To pound or beat rapidly or violently 2 (context intransitive English) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm 3 # (context intransitive of a body part English) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

WordNet
throb

  1. n. a deep pulsating type of pain

  2. an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head" [syn: throbbing, pounding]

  3. v. pulsate or pound with abnormal force; "my head is throbbing"; "Her heart was throbbing"

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

  5. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement [syn: shudder, shiver, thrill]

  6. [also: throbbing, throbbed]

Wikipedia
Throb

Throb is an American television sitcom broadcast in syndication from 1986 to 1988, created by Fredi Towbin.

The show was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions in association with Taft Entertainment Television, and was distributed by Worldvision Enterprises. The series' rights are currently held by CBS Television Distribution.

Throb (album)

Throb is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton recorded in 1969 and released on the Atlantic label.

Throb (disambiguation)

Throb was an American sitcom from the 1980s.

Throb may also refer to:

  • "Throb" (song), a 1993 song by Janet Jackson
  • Throb (album), a 1969 album by Gary Burton
  • Robert Young (musician) (1964 or 1965–2014), Scottish guitarist in Primal Scream, nicknamed "Throb"
Throb (song)

"Throb" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her fifth studio album, janet. (1993). It was written and produced by Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis and is a house song which lyrically is about sex with a partner. It was released commercially in the Netherlands as the album's sixth single on June 18, 1994, while in the United States it was a radio-only release.

"Throb" was well received by critics who appreciated its production. While it did not chart in the Netherlands, in the United States the song peaked at number 66 on the airplay chart and number two on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song was performed on three of Jackson's tours.

Usage examples of "throb".

Hands that she wanted to feel on various annoyingly throbbing body parts.

Their voices rose like distant waves in a slow, antiphonal song, punctuated by the rumble of huge drums bound in human hide, which thumped and throbbed like the beating of a gigantic heart.

Doc Clark had pumped her full of IV antibiotics and antivenom until her arm throbbed, too.

The movement made his upper arm throb where McCoy had only moments ago injected him with a dose of antiviral serum as he came aboard the bridge.

By that evening his entire right leg was throbbing like a rotten tooth, and under the skin he could see the telltale red lines of blood poisoning radiating out from the wound, which had only begun to scab over.

In this light, in this drizzle, with his legs and head still throbbing from the bringdown, New York had all the charm of a dead whore.

A wool blanket mantled his throbbing shoulder, soaked in the heat thrown off by a nearby campfire.

He stood now several paces from Ronin with Matsu drawn to his side, his dirk at her throbbing white throat, so perfect, like ivory.

The soft sweet slushings and the suckings and the nibblings of her dainty lips, the flickings of her ardent little pink tongue over my ardent, puckering cocktip and along the velvety pink and throbbing crannies of the meatus, had driven me to an ungovernable frenzy.

Emily swallowed and closed her fingers around his meaty throbbing shaft.

If there is febrile excitement, a hard pulse, frequent and throbbing, and if there is headache, thirst, parched lips, hot and dry skin, as is sometimes the case, then menorrhagia is due to an augmented action of the heart and arteries, and the indication of treatment is to diminish vascular action.

Cappy was bent over the essay-type meteorology quiz, the tension throbbing in her temples.

I pressed her to my heart, methought hers, which seemed still before, began as if by an involuntary sympathy, palpably and suddenly to throb against my own.

Yet, when the twinned lips met, they cleaved, for these mirrored lips of mine were warm and throbbed.

Her limbs trembled and her head still throbbed from the effects of her misfired spell.