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Definition: Throbbing |
ThrobbingAdjective1. Pounding or beating strongly or violently; "a throbbing pain"; "the throbbing engine of the boat". Noun1. An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head". 2. A sound with a strong rhythmic beat; "the throbbing of the engines". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "throbbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ThrobbingSynonyms: pounding (n), throb (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
Feeling | Phrase: the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy). |
Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement. | |
Physical Pain | Sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Throbbing |
| English words defined with "throbbing": grumbling ♦ pounding, Pulsatile, Pulsative, Pulsatory ♦ rumbling ♦ throb. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ms. Bitters, have you noticed anything strange about the hamster? He's three times his size and he has that hideous throbbing alien device on his back (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) Well, you'd look cheerful too with fifty cubic centimeters throbbing away between your legs (The Killing of Sister George; writing credit: Lukas Heller; Frank Marcus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of a TankTown Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt his cheeks aflame and his throat throbbing with song |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | What it feels like " sharp, dull, throbbing, steady. (references) | |
Migraines are characterized by throbbing pain and sometimes by other symptoms, such as nausea and visual disturbances. (references) | ||
Arteritis, an inflammation of certain arteries in the head, primarily affects people over age 50. Symptoms include throbbing headache, fever, and loss of appetite. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Throbbing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.54% of the time. "Throbbing" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 58.54% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.95% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.15% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.37% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "throbbing": with the heart throbbing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "throbbing": still-throbbing, thick-throbbing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
throbbing cock | 50 |
throbbing gristle | 42 |
throbbing | 38 |
throbbing headache | 8 |
throbbing pussy | 7 |
hard throbbing | 6 |
ear throbbing | 6 |
throbbing clit | 4 |
penis throbbing | 4 |
ear in throbbing | 4 |
throbbing dick | 4 |
gristle lyrics throbbing | 3 |
in shorts throbbing | 3 |
head throbbing | 3 |
leg throbbing | 3 |
manhood throbbing | 2 |
in leg throbbing | 2 |
cock his throbbing | 2 |
temple throbbing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "throbbing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me gjak të ngrirë (with the heart throbbing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 跳动 (throb, Throbbed). (various references) | |
French | vibration (throb), ronflant, lancinant (thumping), battement (threshing floor, throb), élancement (throb). (various references) | |
German | klopfend (knocking, palpitating, tapping). (various references) | |
Greek | καρδιοκτύπι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פעימ" (beat, pulsation, pulse, stroke, throb). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lüktetés (ictus, pulsation, pulse, throb), lüktető fájdalom, dobogás (beat, beating, chunking, palpitation, patter, pitter patter, pounding, pulsation, pulse, throb, thump). (various references) | |
Italian | pulsazione (beating, heartbeat, pitapat, pulsation, throb), palpitazione (palpitation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "動 (beat, palpitation, pulsation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たかなる (beating fast, roar), どうき (contemporary, copperware, corresponding period, incentive, motive, palpitation, pulsation, same class, same period, same temperament, same turn of mind, synchronous), "どう (ancient methods, ancient moral teachings, beat, Kodou, old road, palpitation, pulsation, the way of learning), ときめき (palpitation), とどろき (boomingbeating, peal, pounding, roar, rumble). (various references) | |
Korean | 가슴이 동침. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obbingthray.(various references) | |
Romanian | trepidant (agitated, thrilling), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lupanje (knock, knocking, stamp, throb). (various references) | |
Spanish | palpitante (palpitating). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трепетання, пульсація (beat, beating, pulsation, pulse). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng đập mạnh sự rộn r ng, sự rộn lên (thrill, tingle), sự đập nhanh (throb), sự đập mạnh (throb), nhoi nhói rộn r ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "throbbing": outthrobbing. (additional references) | |
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"Throbbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chobbing, throbbinh, toribiong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "throbbing" (pronounced thrÄ"bing) |
| 5 | -r Ä" b i ng | robbing. |
| 4 | -Ä" b i ng | bobbing, hobbing, lobbing, sobbing. |
| 3 | -b i ng | absorbing, bribing, clubbing, curbing, dabbing, describing, disturbing, drubbing, dubbing, ebbing, gabbing, grabbing, hobnobbing, jabbing, nabbing, prescribing, probing, ribbing, rubbing, scrubbing, snubbing, stabbing, subbing, subscribing, tabbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-g-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: bighorn, hobbing, robbing. | |
-3 letters: boring, bright, gibbon, hobbit, orbing, ribbon, righto, robbin, robing, throng, trigon. | |
-4 letters: bight, bigot, bingo, biont, birth, boing, bring, broth, giron, girth, griot, grith, groin, ingot, intro, night, nitro, north, ohing, orbit, rhino, right, robin, thing, thong, thorn, throb, tigon, trigo. | |
-5 letters: bint, bong, born, bort, both, brig, brin, brio. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-g-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+3 letters: outthrobbing. | |
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