athrob

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/əˈθɹɒb/

adjective

Throbbing.

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Meanings

adjectiveathrob (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThrobbing.

    I have my sore wound, all my length of arm a-throb with lancing pain;

    1974, Robert Fitzgerald, transl., The Iliad, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, Book 16, p. 393
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    Thou wondrous harper, that hast thrilled my heart, […] And made me all athrob with ecstasy,—

    1858, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Alfred, Westminster, act V, page 50

    The great test was on, whether such a nation could live, and Boston was athrob with love of country and eagerness to sacrifice.

    1911, James Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Nine-Tenths, New York: Harper, pages 57–58

    […] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight, for it was yet an hour until the rising of the moon.

    1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC

Origin

From a- + throb.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with athrob

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Anagrams

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APA

athrob. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/athrob

MLA

“athrob.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/athrob. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “athrob,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/athrob.

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