Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat:
Русский
By meaning 2
to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat:
to quiver, vibrate, thrill:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat:

Examples

9 sentences

  1. We were mesmerized by the pulsating glow of the embers.

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  2. Gabriel's injuries were pulsating with pain.

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  3. The music had a pulsating rhythm.

    deDie Musik hatte einen pulsierenden Rhythmus. — Fabe86

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Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive)To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.

    pulsieren

    пульси́роватьpulʹsírovatʹ, би́тьсяbítʹsja

    пульсува́тиpulʹsuváty

    expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically

  2. (intransitive)To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.

    The party pulsated with revellers.

    pulsieren

    вибри́роватьvibrírovatʹ, дрожа́тьdrožátʹ

  3. (figuratively, intransitive)To pulse, to be full of life, energy: to bustle, thrive, flourish.

  4. (transitive)To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

    pulsieren

    пульсува́тиpulʹsuváty

Origin

Perhaps formed within English as a back-formation from pulsation (attested from the early

Perhaps formed within English as a back-formation from pulsation (attested from the early 15th century, in Middle English). A figurative derivation from New Latin pulsō, pulsātum (“(of an organ) to pulse, to emit a pulse”, intransitive) is also possible, itself a back-formation of New Latin pulsātiō (“pulsation”, 14th century), or derived from classical Latin pulsō (“to strike repeatedly”, transitive) with semantic influence from classical pulsus (“a pulse”). Ultimately from Latin pellō (“to strike”). By surface analysis, pulse + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of push.

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Forms

pulsates, pulsating, pulsated, pulsated

regular · Lesson

Base formpulsate · to pulsate
3rd person singularpulsates
Present participlepulsating
Past simplepulsated
Past participlepulsated

Tenses

pulsate · pulsated · will pulsate · have pulsated

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypulsate
he, she, itpulsates

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pulsated
he, she, ithas pulsated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pulsate

Past simpleLesson

all personspulsated

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically:throbpulse
  • move with or as if with a regular alternating motion:beatquiver
  • produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses:pulse

Word family

9 related words
Relatedpulsarpulsatilepulsationpulsatorpulsatorypulse
Derivedpulsatancepulsatingself-pulsate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pulppulpitpulsarpulseB2pumapumice

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