Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pulse
Participle: pulsene
Gerund: pulsing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| he;she;it | pulsees |
| we | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| they | pulse |
Perfect
| I | have pulsene |
| you | have pulsene |
| he;she;it | has pulsene |
| we | have pulsene |
| you | have pulsene |
| they | have pulsene |
Past
| I | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| he;she;it | pulse |
| we | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| they | pulse |
Pluperfect
| I | had pulsene |
| you | had pulsene |
| he;she;it | had pulsene |
| we | had pulsene |
| you | had pulsene |
| they | had pulsene |
Future
| I | will pulse |
| you | will pulse |
| he;she;it | will pulse |
| we | will pulse |
| you | will pulse |
| they | will pulse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pulsene |
| you | will have pulsene |
| he;she;it | will have pulsene |
| we | will have pulsene |
| you | will have pulsene |
| they | will have pulsene |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| he;she;it | pulse |
| we | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| they | pulse |
Perfect
| I | have pulsene |
| you | have pulsene |
| he;she;it | have pulsene |
| we | have pulsene |
| you | have pulsene |
| they | have pulsene |
Imperfect
| I | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| he;she;it | pulse |
| we | pulse |
| you | pulse |
| they | pulse |
Pluperfect
| I | had pulsene |
| you | had pulsene |
| he;she;it | had pulsene |
| we | had pulsene |
| you | had pulsene |
| they | had pulsene |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pulse |
| you | would pulse |
| he;she;it | would pulse |
| we | would pulse |
| you | would pulse |
| they | would pulse |
Perfect
| I | would have pulsene |
| you | would have pulsene |
| he;she;it | would have pulsene |
| we | would have pulsene |
| you | would have pulsene |
| they | would have pulsene |
Imperative
| you | pulse |
| we | Let's pulse |
| you | pulse |
Verbs similar to 'pulse'
pule,
purse,
avulse,
bulge,
curse,
depulse,
dulce,
evulse,
expulse,
false,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "a throb, a beat," c.1330, from O.Fr.
pous (c.1175), from L.
pulsus (in
pulsus venarum "beating from the blood in the veins"), pp. of
pellere "to push, drive," from PIE
*pel- "to shake, swing" (cf. Gk.
pallein "to weild, brandish, swing,"
pelemizein "to shake, cause to tremble"). The verb meaning "to beat, throb" is first attested 1559.
2. From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pulsen (“to pulse, throb”), from Latin pulsāre, the present active infinitive of pulsō (“to push; to beat, batter, hammer, strike; to knock on; (figuratively) to drive or urge on, impel; to move; to agitate, disquiet, disturb”), the frequentative of pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”); see further at etymology 1. Doublet of push.
Verbs referencing "pulse"
French
pulser.
Sample Sentences
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Though a light of love she swimmeth, / Zoned with utterless desire, / And the air of her swift coming / Through thy hot veins pulseth fire. [1850, W[illiam] C[ox] Bennett, “The Shadow-hunted”, in Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 139:]
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Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses. [2023 August 30, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star”, in CNN:]
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Hot blood pulsed through my veins as I grew angrier.
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The streets were dark, and all that could be seen was light pulsing from the disco.
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As pulseth in thy northern skies / Th' Aurora—so, in ecstasies, / Through starry maze, my spirit flies; [...] [1849, A[ndrew] J[ames] Symington, “To Mademoiselle Jenny Lind”, in Harebell Chimes: Or Summer Memories and Musings, London: Houlston and Stoneman; Edinburgh: W[illia]m Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 139:]
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None dare awake the deep affright / That pulseth in the heart of night, [...] [1864, James Thomson, “Vane’s Story”, in Vane’s Story, Weddah and Om-El-Bonain, and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1881, →OCLC, the story, page 54:]
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Come, descend to lower station! / We are of the same creation, / And the life that all sustains / Pulseth in our purple veins: [...] [1867, Arthur H[enry] W[innington] Ingram, “To a Squirrel”, in The Doom of the Gods of Hellas, and Other Poems, London: A. W. Bennett, […], →OCLC, page 57:]
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O Heart Divine, that pulsest through all space, / Why dost Thou seem so far away and cold? / We miss the pressure of the arms that fold; / We long to hear Thy voice, to see Thy face. [From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.] [1887 February 3, F. V., “O Heart Divine!”, in Lyman Abbott, Hamilton W[right] Mabie, editors, The Christian Union, volume 35, number 5, New York, N.Y.: The Christian Union Company, →OCLC, page 31, column 2:]
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There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs. [2022 February 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Opinion: You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:]
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The emotion had pulsed from the outset, the Ukraine players emerging from the tunnel with blue and yellow flags around their shoulders; the rendition of their anthem seeing eyes well up. [2023 March 26, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian:]