Definition of "throb"

throb

/θɹɒb/

verb
third-person singular simple present throbs, present participle throbbing, simple past and past participle throbbed
1. (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
3. (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
4. (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
  Quotations
  Having been married and divorced, Suzanne throbs with attitudes of strength, liberation and equality.
  1977 April 23, Arlene Silva, “Suzanne Fox's Silent Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 10
noun
plural throbs
1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.
  Quotations
  My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs, presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country
  1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]