Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to throb
Participle: throbbed
Gerund: throbbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | throb |
| you | throb |
| he;she;it | throbs |
| we | throb |
| you | throb |
| they | throb |
Perfect
| I | have throbbed |
| you | have throbbed |
| he;she;it | has throbbed |
| we | have throbbed |
| you | have throbbed |
| they | have throbbed |
Past
| I | throbbed |
| you | throbbed |
| he;she;it | throbbed |
| we | throbbed |
| you | throbbed |
| they | throbbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had throbbed |
| you | had throbbed |
| he;she;it | had throbbed |
| we | had throbbed |
| you | had throbbed |
| they | had throbbed |
Future
| I | will throb |
| you | will throb |
| he;she;it | will throb |
| we | will throb |
| you | will throb |
| they | will throb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have throbbed |
| you | will have throbbed |
| he;she;it | will have throbbed |
| we | will have throbbed |
| you | will have throbbed |
| they | will have throbbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | throb |
| you | throb |
| he;she;it | throb |
| we | throb |
| you | throb |
| they | throb |
Perfect
| I | have throbbed |
| you | have throbbed |
| he;she;it | have throbbed |
| we | have throbbed |
| you | have throbbed |
| they | have throbbed |
Imperfect
| I | throbbed |
| you | throbbed |
| he;she;it | throbbed |
| we | throbbed |
| you | throbbed |
| they | throbbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had throbbed |
| you | had throbbed |
| he;she;it | had throbbed |
| we | had throbbed |
| you | had throbbed |
| they | had throbbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would throb |
| you | would throb |
| he;she;it | would throb |
| we | would throb |
| you | would throb |
| they | would throb |
Perfect
| I | would have throbbed |
| you | would have throbbed |
| he;she;it | would have throbbed |
| we | would have throbbed |
| you | would have throbbed |
| they | would have throbbed |
Imperative
| you | throb |
| we | Let's throb |
| you | throb |
Verbs conjugated like 'throb'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'throb'
throe,
throw,
torob,
berob,
brob,
frob,
hob,
rob,
shrow,
shrub,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin. Cognate with Scots thrab (“to throb”). Compare also drub.
Verbs referencing "throb"
Russian
трепать.
Sample Sentences
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[...] faces full of interest. The boat comes alongside; the bags are dragged in anyhow, and flung down for the moment anywhere. Three cheers more: and as the first one rings upon our ears, the vessel throbs like a strong giant that has just received the breath of life; the two great wheels turn fiercely round for the first time; and the noble ship, with wind and tide astern, breaks proudly through the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] she has gained the surface, she throws a summerset. The instant she is on her legs, she rushes backward. And so she goes on staggering, heaving, wrestling, leaping, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, sometimes by turns, and sometimes altogether: until one feels disposed to roar for mercy.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Still she thought she heard the trader make an offer for her boy; — could she be mistaken ? Her heart swelled and throbbed, and she involuntarily strained him so tight that the little fellow looked up into her face in astonishment.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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After the birth of little Harry, however, she had gradually become tranquillized and settled; and every bleeding tie and throbbing nerve, once more entwined with that little life, seemed to become sound and healthful, and Eliza was a happy woman up to the time that her husband was rudely torn from his kind employer, and brought [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] old differences settling down, and being fast forgotten; public feeling and private enterprise alike in a sound and wholesome state; nothing of flush or fever in its system, but health and vigour throbbing in its steady pulse: it is full of hope and promise. To me—who had been accustomed to think of it as something left behind in the strides of advancing society, as something neglected and forgotten, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] had never realized it, till she saw the slender form of Rosa almost convulsed with distress. All the honest blood of womanhood, the strong New England blood of liberty, flushed to her cheeks, and throbbed bitterly in her indignant heart; but, with habitual prudence and self-control, she mastered herself, and, crushing the paper firmly in her hand, she merely said to Rosa,
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. He did not know but that the day of his death was dawning in the sky; and his heart throbbed with solemn throes of joy and desire, as he thought that the wondrous _all_, of which he had often pondered,—the great white throne, with its ever radiant rainbow; the white-robed multitude, with [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)