Falter vs Throb - What's the difference?
falter | throb | Related terms |
unsteadiness.
To waver or be unsteady.
* Wiseman
(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
* Byron
* Milton
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
* I. Taylor
To stumble.
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
*
To hesitate in purpose or action.
* Shakespeare
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
To pound or beat rapidly or violently
To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm
# (of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
A beating, vibration or palpitation
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, My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs , presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country}}
Falter is a related term of throb.
As nouns the difference between falter and throb
is that falter is butterfly while throb is a beating, vibration or palpitation.As a verb throb is
to pound or beat rapidly or violently.falter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He found his legs falter .
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- (Halliwell)