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Synonyms for throb

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Synonyms for throb

to make rhythmic contractions, sounds, or movements

a periodic contraction or sound of something coursing

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Synonyms for throb

a deep pulsating type of pain

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an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)

pulsate or pound with abnormal force

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expand and contract rhythmically

tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

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Their teenage escapade with Heart Throb was just a pleasant memory they would go back to and laugh about as part of their crazy girlhood.
I was visiting Norma 1 and we were reminiscing about our youth, when she said that she heard Heart Throb was living in the city I was going to.
Why did you stop calling?" Norma 1 was stunned, but Heart Throb was beside himself with joy.
The Heart Throb RB-57 featured a pressurized compartment for the cameras: one 12"-focal-length, 9x9"-format mapping camera; and two 36"-focal-length, 9"x 18"-format target cameras.
One thing was becoming clear; Heart Throb was over sometime after the summer of '56.
The RB-57 Heart Throb Canberra was a great airplane and a joy to fly.
Also integral to the creation and direction of Throb is cardiologist Dr Nick Ossei-Gerning, whose expertise is the taboo subject of erectile dysfunction.
The resulting project, Throb, is not solely about erectile dysfunction.
Many men have a fear of doctors and of hearing the worst, but I'm hoping that Throb will enable people to discuss sexual communication and become enlightened.
Author Irvine Welsh wrote: "One of the best, the most beautiful, who WAS rock'n'roll." Liam Gallagher tweeted: "RIP Robert Young AKA 'Throb'.
D.," these close-to-puerile photomontages throb in unison to the Dockland's beat of Doron's inverted Global Village.
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Her writing fairly throbs with color and feeling as she tells of trips: Meloy takes a solo vindication trip to make up for all the times her family did not stop at motels with swimming pools when she was a child.
At school and at other places outside of home, she often starts to breathe quickly, her heart races, her stomach throbs and she suddenly feels "out of control." Crowded areas frighten her, and she frequently calls her parents from school, pleading to be taken home.
The duo serve up a batch of bleeps and throbs to match the tower's protean changes, but the sound track doesn't stand up on its own.