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throbbing

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

Beating or pounding strongly.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of throbpresent participle and gerund of throb

adjective

  1. 1

    Beating or pounding strongly.

    I have a throbbing headache.

noun

  1. 1

    That which throbs.

    Krause’s “niche hypothesis” may seem more plausible after you’ve listened to his recordings of dense tropical jungles, polyphonous soundscapes packed with whistles and whinnies, whoops, hoots and howls, deep bass throbbings and shrieking buzzes.

Forms

plural
throbbings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).