Definitions for throb

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Spelling: [throb]

IPA: /θrɒb/

Throb is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in throb (bhort).

Definitions for throb

noun

1. the act of throbbing.
2. a violent beat or pulsation, as of the heart.
3. any pulsation or vibration:

verb (used without object)

1. to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
2. to feel or exhibit emotion:
3. to pulsate; vibrate:

Origin of throb

1325-75; Middle English *throbben, implied in present participle throbbant throbbing

Examples for throb

The throb of these sounds was as a background to the evening--fierce, passionate, barbaric.

No, it is not Ebola, though the throb of coverage would have it seem so.

There you can see the very veins and the throb of the blood.

She was all his, and he was certain to know every thought of her mind and every throb of her heart.

He wished to open his spirit to the feeling and throb of the living world.

It was the same clear voice, with the throb of tender feeling in it.

Little by little his pulses quieted, his temples ceased to throb.

There was no faltering in her voice, never a throb of pathos.

When I came in at the end of the day, my heart used to throb with gladness.

Every throb of his heart, almost every evolution of his brain, found an echo in me.