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Pulse

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

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Verb group 6

Pulsate 84% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Pulsate 84% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 12

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Legume 76% connected

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pound 76% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Thump 76% connected

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

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Undulation 76% connected

The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

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Wave 76% connected

See Waive.

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Narrower term 5

Diastole 76% connected

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

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Pounding 76% connected

of Pound

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Systole 76% connected

The shortening of the long syllable.

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Throb 76% connected

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Throbbing 76% connected

of Throb

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Derivationally related 6

Beat 74% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Beat 74% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pulsate 74% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pulsate 74% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Causes 2

Pulsate 72% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

Throb 72% connected

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Beat 92% connected

of Beat

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Impulse 92% connected

The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediatel…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pulsate 92% connected

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pulsation 92% connected

A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Throb 92% connected

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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