Synonyms for pulsing


Grammar : Verb
Spell : puhls
Phonetic Transcription : pÊŒls

Top 10 synonyms for pulsing Other synonyms for the word pulsing

Définition of pulsing

Origin :
  • "a throb, a beat," early 14c., from Old French pous, pulse (late 12c., Modern French pouls) and directly from Latin pulsus (in pulsus venarum "beating from the blood in the veins"), past participle of pellere "to push, drive," from PIE *pel- (6) "to thrust, strike, drive" (cf. Greek pallein "to wield, brandish, swing," pelemizein "to shake, cause to tremble"). Extended usages from 16c. Figurative use for "life, vitality, essential energy" is from 1530s.
  • verb quiver, beat
Example sentences :
  • But it was all very wonderful, pulsing with life, eloquent of achievement.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Stark and cruelly naked they lay there, pulsing with life that should not have been.
  • Extract from : « The Affair of the Brains » by Anthony Gilmore
  • The pulsing, throbbing pandemonium was terrific as the march began.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • Her thin neck throbbed with the pulsing of blood to her head.
  • Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
  • You're young and pulsing with life, and there are—thank Heaven!
  • Extract from : « Uncanny Tales » by Various
  • The pulsing of the nectocalyx occasions a flow of water into and out of the bell.
  • Extract from : « The Dawn of Reason » by James Weir
  • Its screen filled with a pulsing glow, and there was a voice.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • The Streak was pulsing and vibrating and roaring like a thing alive.
  • Extract from : « Tales of the Fish Patrol » by Jack London
  • His fury was a red, pulsing thing inside him, fed by his own helplessness.
  • Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton
  • In fact, all the interests of living, pulsing Thebes were centered here.
  • Extract from : « The World's Progress, Vol. I (of X) » by Various

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