pulsate

Borrowed from Latin pulsātus, from pulsō (“I strike repeatedly”), from pellō (“I strike”). Doublet of push.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pʌlˈseɪt/, (obsolete) /ˈpʌl.seɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌl.seɪt/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -eɪt

pulsate (third-person singular simple present pulsates, present participle pulsating, simple past and past participle pulsated)

1. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
2. To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.

   The party pulsated with revellers.

3. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

• pulsar

• puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal

pulsate

1. adverbial present passive participle of pulsar

pulsate

1. inflection of pulsare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

pulsate f pl

1. feminine plural of pulsato

• spulate, stapule

pulsāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pulsō

pulsate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of pulsar combined with te