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Vibrate

verb

(past & past part. vibrated; pres. part. vibrating)

Shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner.

Move or swing from side to side regularly. Synonym: oscillate.

Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action. Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate.

Sound with resonance. Synonym: resonate.

Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion. Synonyms: thrill, tickle.

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"Vibrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... would see the surface of the water break with a curling gleam of gold, which would give way to a bubbling splash; then she would see the willow rod bend, see it vibrate and thrill and tremble, the point working slowly over the bank. Then perhaps the rod would suddenly straighten out for a few seconds only to bend again, slowly, gently, but mercilessly. Or perhaps the point continued to come in until it was ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... and listening keenly. After a few seconds of strained attention the boys became aware of a sort of dull pounding sound which seemed to come from some distance. It sounded almost like the regular beat of a large drum. The air seemed to vibrate with it. ...

— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... him for a moment, and in the thrilling pressure of his arms she felt his love for her vibrate; but he made no ...

— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... from the music of a violin fresh from the maker's hands? Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule that had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. Besides, the wood is juicy and full of sap for fifty years or so, but at the end of fifty ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... appreciating the joys of life when impatience makes the nerves vibrate or when anger brandishes its torch in the bends and turns of ...

— Common Sense - - Subtitle: How To Exercise It • Yoritomo-Tashi

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