Synonyms of the word

throb

• v. (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
• n. A beating, vibration or palpitation.

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

heartbeat

• n. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
• n. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
• n. A driving impulse or vital force.
• n. A very short space of time; an instant.
• n. (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize…

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

hurting

• v. present participle of hurt.
• n. A sensation that hurts.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

pound

• n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning…
• n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring…
• n. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash).
• n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
• n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus…
• n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
• n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force…
• n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
• n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of…
• n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
• n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by…
• v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
• v. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
• v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
• v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
• v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
• v. (transitive, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
• v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
• v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
• v. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
• n. A hard blow.

pounding

• v. present participle of pound.
• n. An act in which something or someone is pounded.
• adj. Causing heavy or loud throbs.

pulsate

• v. to expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
• v. to quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
• v. to produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

pulsation

• n. The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
• n. Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
• n. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow.
• n. A single beat, throb or vibration.

pulse

• n. (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of…
• n. A beat or throb.
• n. (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
• n. An autosoliton.
• v. To beat, to throb, to flash.
• v. To flow, particularly of blood.
• v. To emit in discrete quantities.
• n. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod,…

shiver

• v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
• n. The act or result of shivering.
• n. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.^Wp.
• n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
• n. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
• n. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
• n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A spindle.
• v. To break into splinters or fragments.

shudder

• n. A shivering tremor.
• n. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
• v. (intransitive) To shake nervously, as if from fear.
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

smart

• v. (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
• v. (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
• v. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
• adj. Causing sharp pain; stinging.
• adj. Sharp; keen; poignant.
• adj. Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
• adj. Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
• adj. (often in combination) Equipped with digital/computer technology.
• adj. Good-looking.
• adj. Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
• adj. (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
• adj. (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
• n. A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
• n. Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
• n. Smart-money.
• n. (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

thrill

• v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
• v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
• v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
• v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
• n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
• n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
• n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
• n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

throbbing

• v. present participle of throb.
• adj. beating or pounding strongly.
• n. That which throbs.

thump

• n. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
• n. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
• v. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
• v. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
• v. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

tremble

• v. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
• n. A shake, quiver, or vibration.