Origin: Latin
suffix -ate
Pulsate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
"The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
2
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
"the city pulsated with music and excitement"
3
produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
"pulse waves"
"a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
4
To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
Example Sentences
"The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
verb
"the city pulsated with music and excitement"
verb
"pulse waves"
verb
"a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
verb
Broader Terms (hypernyms)