pulsate

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  1. intransitive verb To expand and contract rhythmically; beat.
  2. intransitive verb To quiver; vibrate.

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  • Their specialty line is also a bright point in their collection, quite literally; the company has over a dozen light-up styles that blink, pulsate, and otherwise twinkle when worn as well as nearly 20 different UV-reactive styles that gleam like neon under special light. —  AVN News
  • As these stars pulsate - losing mass in the process - and then contract, they spew out almost all of their heavier elements. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The glazed and brittle palaces pulsate and radiate —  ABRUPTO
  • So while the game was always a game - you picked your craft, you raced round the track, you used weapons as you saw fit, and you won or you lost - the universe that supposedly surrounded it came to throb and pulsate and evolve as time went by. —  the-inbetween.com
  • She says: "Just as the blood moves in the veins which causes them to vibrate and pulsate, so the stars move in the firmament and send out sparks as it were of light like the vibrations of the veins." —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin pulsāre, pulsāt-, frequentative of pellere, to beat; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin pulsatus, past participle of pulsare, beat, strike, push, drive: see pulse.
 

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/ˈpəlseɪt/
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