'Pulsate' definitions:
Definition of 'pulsate'
From: WordNet
verb
Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" [syn: pulsate, throb, pulse]
verb
Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate, beat, quiver]
verb
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, pulsate]
Definition of 'Pulsate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. --E. Darwin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pulsate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternate,
- be here again,
- beat,
- beat a ruffle,
- beat a tattoo,
- circle,
- come again,
- come and go,
- come around,
- come round,
- come round again,
- come up again,
- cycle,
- drum,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- go pitapat,
- hammer,
- intermit,
- oscillate,
- palpitate,
- pant,
- patter,
- pitter-patter,
- pound,
- pulse,
- pump,
- quiver,
- reappear,
- recur,
- reoccur,
- repeat,
- return,
- reverberate,
- revolve,
- roar,
- roll,
- roll around,
- rotate,
- ruffle,
- sound a tattoo,
- splatter,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- throb,
- thrum,
- thud,
- thump,
- tick,
- ticktock,
- turn,
- undulate,
- vibrate,
- wheel,
- wheel around