What is another word for throb?

Pronunciation: [θɹˈɒb] (IPA)

The word throb refers to a rhythmic pulsing or beating sensation. Some synonyms for throb include pulse, beat, palpitate, pulsate, thump, and pound. These words convey a similar sense of a constant and often intense motion or sensation. Throbbing symptoms often indicate pain or discomfort, and other synonyms for throb that convey this sense of discomfort include ache, agony, and stabbing. Throbbing can also describe emotional sensations, as in the phrase "throbbing heart," and synonyms for this context may include swelling, surging, or swelling. Overall, the synonyms for throb offer a range of nuances and implications for this commonly experienced sensation.

Synonyms for Throb:

What are the hypernyms for Throb?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for throb (as verbs)

What are the hyponyms for Throb?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for throb (as nouns)

    • state
      hurting, pain.
  • hyponyms for throb (as verbs)

Usage examples for Throb

To do so, as has already been said, would be impossible, since life itself is sustained by the rise and fall of mortal breasts and the beat and throb of mortal hearts.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
Then came another throb of terror.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
With every failure I experienced a throb of dismay.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Throb

  • I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.
    John B. Hood
  • The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
    Rabindranath Tagore
  • The throb of fifty or a hundred million steam horse-power, doubling every ten years, and already more despotic than all the horses that ever lived, and all the riders they ever carried, drowned rhyme and reason. No one was to blame, for all were equally servants of the power, and worked merely to increase it; but the conservative Christian anarchist saw light.
    Henry Adams
  • Dawn was definitely pulling into the station by now, and the snow had begun to throb with an electric, new-fallen whiteness. It climbed the inside of my trousers, and clung, squeakily, to the soles of my boots, and the bit just in front seemed to say ‘don’t walk on me, please don’t walk . . . oh.’
    Hugh Laurie
  • The unique throb of life in all creation could seem only poetic imagery before your advent, Professor! A saint I once knew would never pluck flowers. 'Shall I rob the rosebush of its pride in beauty? Shall I cruelly affront its dignity by my rude divestment?' His sympathetic words are verified literally through your discoveries!"
    Jagadish Chandra Bose

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