Pulsate
verb
To beat or throb in a steady rhythm.
Her heart began to pulsate rapidly from fear.
Often appears as...
- pulsate with fear
- pulsate with excitement
verb
To expand and contract rhythmically or steadily.
The lights pulsate to the rhythm of the music.
Often appears as...
- pulsate in rhythm
- pulsate with light
verb
To emit or radiate in strong regular movements.
The star pulsates and throws off shells of gas.
Often appears as...
- pulsate with energy
- pulsate with radiation
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To beat or throb in a steady rhythm.
Her heart began to pulsate rapidly from fear.
Often appears as...
- pulsate with fear
- pulsate with excitement
verb
To expand and contract rhythmically or steadily.
The lights pulsate to the rhythm of the music.
Often appears as...
- pulsate in rhythm
- pulsate with light
verb
To emit or radiate in strong regular movements.
The star pulsates and throws off shells of gas.
Often appears as...
- pulsate with energy
- pulsate with radiation
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe actions or feelings with strong emotional impacts, often related to fear or excitement.
His voice began to pulsate with anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Buildup
Implies a growing intensity or a build-up to a climactic point.
The crowd's chanting began to pulsate through the stadium.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe something that seems alive with activity or excitement.
The city seemed to pulsate with the night's festivities.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe actions or feelings with strong emotional impacts, often related to fear or excitement.
His voice began to pulsate with anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Buildup
Implies a growing intensity or a build-up to a climactic point.
The crowd's chanting began to pulsate through the stadium.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe something that seems alive with activity or excitement.
The city seemed to pulsate with the night's festivities.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe actions or feelings with strong emotional impacts, often related to fear or excitement.
His voice began to pulsate with anger.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Buildup
Implies a growing intensity or a build-up to a climactic point.
The crowd's chanting began to pulsate through the stadium.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe something that seems alive with activity or excitement.
The city seemed to pulsate with the night's festivities.
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Africa’s Astronomical...
where we take HD movies of the universe and so by doing that we can find pulsating stars like the ones you see behind me now right some of them pulsate and these are ideal for example for measuring galactic structure and setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not
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Underwater astonishments...
There's a fish with glowing eyes, pulsating eyes. Some of the colors are designed to hypnotize, these lovely patterns. And then this last one, one of my favorites, this pinwheel design. Just absolutely amazing, every single dive. That's the unknown world, and today we've only explored
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Dive into an ocean...
and then they rush in to dine on this pulsating and movable feast. Close behind are sharks. Now, most people believe that sharks and dolphins are these mortal enemies, but during the Sardine Run, they actually coexist. In fact, dolphins actually help sharks feed more effectively.
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Termite Queen Lays...
think you need royal treatment you are helpless see a termite queen's head is nearly as small as the rest of the termites in the colony but she's rendered immobile by her four inch throbbing pulsating egg machine of an abdomen how many eggs can this body produce
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Underwater astonishments...
glowing eyes pulsating eyes some some of the colors are designed to hypnotize these lovely patterns and then this last one one of my favorites is pinwheel design just absolutely amazing every single dive that's the unknown world and today we've only explored
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Her Majesty, The Termite...
you aren't acting helpless because you think you need royal treatment you are helpless see a termite queen's head is nearly as small as the rest of the termites in the colony but she's rendered immobile by her four-inch throbbing pulsating egg machine of an
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Why there's no such...
But their real world was nothing like our own. The real world of the Athenians was alive with things that we would consider immaterial and thus unreal. It pulsated with things like gods,
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Meet The Lightning Bug...
granted until I was an adult the light show itself on a peak night it just blows your socks off it is so beautiful it is so mesmerizing and you were surrounded with pulsating lights and
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How does a jellyfish...
for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea.
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The life cycle of a...
That’ll help us learn what else the spectacular demise of these dense, pulsating, spinning magnets can tell us about the universe.
Video examples
Africa’s Astronomical...
where we take HD movies of the universe and so by doing that we can find pulsating stars like the ones you see behind me now right some of them pulsate and these are ideal for example for measuring galactic structure and setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not
Video examples
Underwater astonishments...
There's a fish with glowing eyes, pulsating eyes. Some of the colors are designed to hypnotize, these lovely patterns. And then this last one, one of my favorites, this pinwheel design. Just absolutely amazing, every single dive. That's the unknown world, and today we've only explored
Video examples
Dive into an ocean...
and then they rush in to dine on this pulsating and movable feast. Close behind are sharks. Now, most people believe that sharks and dolphins are these mortal enemies, but during the Sardine Run, they actually coexist. In fact, dolphins actually help sharks feed more effectively.
Video examples
Termite Queen Lays...
think you need royal treatment you are helpless see a termite queen's head is nearly as small as the rest of the termites in the colony but she's rendered immobile by her four inch throbbing pulsating egg machine of an abdomen how many eggs can this body produce
Video examples
Underwater astonishments...
glowing eyes pulsating eyes some some of the colors are designed to hypnotize these lovely patterns and then this last one one of my favorites is pinwheel design just absolutely amazing every single dive that's the unknown world and today we've only explored
Video examples
Her Majesty, The Termite...
you aren't acting helpless because you think you need royal treatment you are helpless see a termite queen's head is nearly as small as the rest of the termites in the colony but she's rendered immobile by her four-inch throbbing pulsating egg machine of an
Video examples
Why there's no such...
But their real world was nothing like our own. The real world of the Athenians was alive with things that we would consider immaterial and thus unreal. It pulsated with things like gods,
Video examples
Meet The Lightning Bug...
granted until I was an adult the light show itself on a peak night it just blows your socks off it is so beautiful it is so mesmerizing and you were surrounded with pulsating lights and
Video examples
How does a jellyfish...
for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea.
Video examples
The life cycle of a...
That’ll help us learn what else the spectacular demise of these dense, pulsating, spinning magnets can tell us about the universe.
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Ed Kowalczyk
American Musician
Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could.
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Carolyn Porco
American Scientist
It's like there's a pulsating, hidden world, governed by ancient laws and principles, underlying everything around us - from the movements of electrical charges to the motions of the planets - and most people are completely unaware of it. To me, that's a shame.
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Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters. No matter what. I just became obsessed with movies, and wound up getting drawn to the pulsating grain of film and the flickering of the light.
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Boots Riley
American Musician
The goal with a show is to push forward the passion in a visual and sonic way. It all comes out in a trance-like way, fast and pulsating. Then people can go home and think about the lyrics later.
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Hans Hofmann
German Artist
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Edgard Varese
American Composer
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Welsh Actress
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
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Ernst Toller
German Playwright
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
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Ed Kowalczyk
American Musician
Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could.
Quote examples
Carolyn Porco
American Scientist
It's like there's a pulsating, hidden world, governed by ancient laws and principles, underlying everything around us - from the movements of electrical charges to the motions of the planets - and most people are completely unaware of it. To me, that's a shame.
Quote examples
Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters. No matter what. I just became obsessed with movies, and wound up getting drawn to the pulsating grain of film and the flickering of the light.
Quote examples
Boots Riley
American Musician
The goal with a show is to push forward the passion in a visual and sonic way. It all comes out in a trance-like way, fast and pulsating. Then people can go home and think about the lyrics later.
Quote examples
Hans Hofmann
German Artist
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Quote examples
Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Quote examples
Napoleon Hill
American Author
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Quote examples
Edgard Varese
American Composer
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Quote examples
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Welsh Actress
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
Quote examples
Ernst Toller
German Playwright
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
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