Pulsate Definition

pŭlsāt
pulsated, pulsates, pulsating
verb
pulsated, pulsates, pulsating
To beat or throb rhythmically, as the heart.
Webster's New World
To produce rhythmic sounds or other vibrations.
Music pulsating throughout the room.
American Heritage
To vibrate; quiver.
Webster's New World

To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

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Origin of Pulsate

  • Latin pulsāre pulsāt- frequentative of pellere to beat pel-5 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pulsātiō (“repeated striking"), from pulsō (“strike repeatedly"), from pellō (“strike")

    From Wiktionary

Pulsate Sentence Examples

  • This acts as a larval heart, but ceases to pulsate after a time.

  • Her paintings, like Samuel Palmer 's, seem to pulsate with a magical inner light.

  • False Blood should not pulsate as it leaves the radial artery?

  • It is only in this way that the air can be made to pulsate, and that the rhythm of the wing and the air waves can be made to correspond.

  • The fight scenes are expertly choreographed and there 's no doubt that action movies pulsate with excitement.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUL

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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pulsate

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

Starts With P & Ends With EStarts With PU & Ends With EStarts With P & Ends With TE

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With E