Definition of pulsates Pulsates

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Verb pulsates, pulsating, pulsated
pulsate - expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
		throb, pulse
		thump, pound, beat hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
pulsate - move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
		beat, quiver
		move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"
pulsate - 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"
		pulse
		create, produce, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"

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pulsate (Verb)
To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
pulsate (Verb)
To quiver, vibrate, thrill.
pulsate (Verb)
To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

pulsate
pul′sāt, v.i. to beat, as the heart or as a vein: to throb.—adj. Pul′satile, that can pulsate, as a wound: that may be struck or beaten, as a drum: played by beating: acting by pulsation.—n. Pulsā′tion, a beating or throbbing: a motion of the heart or pulse: any measured beat: a vibration.—adj. Pul′sative.—n. Pulsā′tor, a pulsometer: a jigging-machine, used in South African diamond-digging.—adj. Pul′satory, beating or throbbing.—n. any musical instrument played by being beaten on. [L. pulsāre, -ātum, to beat, freq. of pellĕre, pulsum, to drive.]