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vibrate
[ vahy-breyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; oscillate.
- to move to and fro or up and down quickly and repeatedly; quiver; tremble.
- (of sounds) to produce or have a quivering or vibratory effect; resound.
Synonyms: echo
- to thrill, as in emotional response.
- to move between alternatives or extremes; fluctuate; vacillate.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, swing, or oscillate.
- to cause to move to and fro or up and down quickly and repeatedly; cause to quiver or tremble.
- to give forth or emit by, or as by, vibration.
- to measure or indicate by vibration or oscillation:
a pendulum vibrating seconds.
vibrate
/ vaɪˈbreɪt; ˈvaɪbrəˌtaɪl /
verb
- to move or cause to move back and forth rapidly; shake, quiver, or throb
- intr to oscillate
- to send out (a sound) by vibration; resonate or cause to resonate
- intr to waver
- physics to undergo or cause to undergo an oscillatory or periodic process, as of an alternating current; oscillate
- rare.intr to respond emotionally; thrill
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Derived Forms
- viˈbratingly, adverb
- vibratile, adjective
- ˈvibratory, adjective
- viˈbrating, adjective
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Other Words From
- vibrat·ing·ly adverb
- non·vibrat·ing adjective
- re·vibrate verb revibrated revibrating
- un·vibrat·ed adjective
- un·vibrat·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vibrate1
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Example Sentences
My gloved fingertips, soaked with blood on his pulseless groin, started to vibrate.
To keep you off your seat and on your feet, many trackers will even vibrate after a certain timeframe of inactivity.
Should a solar flare vibrate the interstellar plasma in the next few years, the tone would be higher still.
Eric Cantor: too twitchy (manly men do not visibly vibrate with nervous energy).
Vibration promotes life and vigour, strength and beauty...Vibrate Your Body and Make It Well.
It has, indeed, one of the most important properties of all substances, in that it can vibrate.
Cannot two brains that vibrate in unison at a distance of many kilometres be moved by the same psychic force?
The struck chord ceased to vibrate as she reached the house where she had suffered and learned so much.
At last a beautiful, sad voice, which Paul well knew, made the hot afternoon air vibrate.
In the green summer of his days he fell, and long did my heart vibrate from the shock.
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