Pulsate vs. Throb: What's the Difference?

To expand and contract rhythmically

To beat rapidly or violently, as the heart; pound.

To produce rhythmic sounds or other vibrations

To feel or be subjected to a pulsating pain

To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.

To vibrate, pulsate, or sound with a steady pronounced rhythm

To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.

A beating, pulsating, or vibration.

To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

(intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

(intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.

Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;

To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;

A beating, vibration or palpitation.

Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses;

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; - said of the heart, pulse, etc.

A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:

A deep pulsating type of pain

An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart);

Pulsate or pound with abnormal force;

Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;

Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement