verb
- Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.
- usage: "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
- Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses.
- usage: "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
- Drive by or as if by pulsation.
- usage: "A soft breeze pulsed the air"
- synonyms: pulse
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