Synonyms for throbbing
throb·bing

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1. throb, throbbing, poundingnoun

   an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)

   "he felt a throbbing in his head"

   Synonyms:
   buffeting, hammering, pound, pounding, hammer, throb

   Antonyms:
   unrhythmical, unrhythmic

2. throbbingadjective

   a sound with a strong rhythmic beat

   "the throbbing of the engines"

   Synonyms:
   pounding, throb

   Antonyms:
   unrhythmical, unrhythmic

3. throbbingadjective

   pounding or beating strongly or violently

   "a throbbing pain"; "the throbbing engine of the boat"

   Antonyms:
   unrhythmic, unrhythmical

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1. • Pulse

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1. throbbingnoun

   Synonyms:
   beating, THROB

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1. throbbingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pulsating, palpitant, palpitating

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1. List of paraphrases for "throbbing":

   shaking, shivering, trembling

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1. Colin Wayne:

   Due to the force of the blast I suffered a concussion and I remember yelling for a medic but nobody was around me. It was pitch black, I couldnt see my hand in front of my face, my leg was throbbing in pain, I could barely breathe due to the massive amount of debris in the air. After a few minutes, two soldiers came in and got me, but those [four to five]minutes felt like hours. So coming back stateside, I have been told by family members that I was a lot more distant and that I had changed some.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

3. Orison Swett Marden:

   When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

4. Henry Miller:

   Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm.