pulsate
- v expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- v move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
the city pulsated with music and excitement - v produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- When the night falls this sleepy street pulsates with nightlife.
- 'By frequent repetitions these motions acquire associations, which continue during our lives, and even after the destruction of the greatest part of the sensorium; for the heart of a viper of frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body; and when it has entirely ceased to move, if any part of it is goaded with a pin, the whole heart will again renew its pulsations.' Eramus Darwin in 'Zoonomia or the Laws of Organic Life'
- As the drumbeats pulsate through the room, happy couples gyrate in gay abandon.