pulsate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
    throb; pulse.
    • The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it
  2. verb move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
    beat; quiver.
    • the city pulsated with music and excitement
  3. verb produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
    pulse.
    • pulse waves
    • a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube

WordNet

Pul"sate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. pulsatus, p. p. of pulsare to beat, strike, v. intens. fr. pellere to beat, strike, drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pulse, v.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pulsated ; present participle & verbal noun Pulsating
Definitions
  1. To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
    The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.

Webster 1913