Dictionary Definition
pulsate
Verb
1 expand and contract rhythmically; beat
rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the
surgeon massaged it" [syn: throb, pulse]
2 move with or as if with a regular alternating
motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn:
beat, quiver]
3 produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves)
in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to
produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an
electronic tube" [syn: pulse]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
- To quiver, vibrate, thrill.
- To produce pulsations.
Related terms
Translations
to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or
to beat
- German: pulsieren
To quiver, vibrate, thrill
- German: pulsieren
To produce pulsations
- German: pulsieren
Italian
Verb
pulsate- Form of Second-person plural present tense, pulsare
- Form of Second-person plural imperative, pulsare#Italian|pulsare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alternate, be here again,
beat, beat a ruffle, beat a
tattoo, circle, come
again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come
up again, cycle, drum, fluctuate, flutter, go pitapat, hammer, intermit, oscillate, palpitate, pant, patter, pitter-patter, pound, pulse, pump, quiver, reappear, recur, reoccur, repeat, return, reverberate, revolve, roar, roll, roll around, rotate, ruffle, sound a tattoo, splatter, splutter, sputter, throb, thrum, thud, thump, tick, ticktock, turn, undulate, vibrate, wheel, wheel
around