Throb vs Reverberate - What's the difference?
throb | reverberate |
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}}
to ring with many echos
to have a lasting effect
* '>citation
to repeatedly return
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
* Shakespeare
To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
To fuse by reverberated heat.
* Sir Thomas Browne
to rebound or recoil
to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
(obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light
reverberant
* Shakespeare
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
In intransitive terms the difference between throb and reverberate
is that throb is to vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm while reverberate is to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc..As a noun throb
is a beating, vibration or palpitation.As an adjective reverberate is
reverberant.throb
English
Verb
(throbb)Derived terms
* throbbinglyNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* throbber * heartthrobAnagrams
*reverberate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
- Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
- reverberated into glass
References
*Adjective
(en adjective)- the reverberate hills
- (Drayton)