different between pulsate vs shudder

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin puls?tus, from puls? (“I strike repeatedly”), from pell? (“I strike”). Doublet of push.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?l?se?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?l.se?t/

Verb

pulsate (third-person singular simple present pulsates, present participle pulsating, simple past and past participle pulsated)

1. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
2. To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
3. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pulsar

Translations

Anagrams

• puteals, septula, spatule, upsteal

Ido

Verb

pulsate

1. adverbial present passive participle of pulsar

Italian

Verb

pulsate

1. second-person plural present indicative of pulsare
2. second-person plural imperative of pulsare

Verb

pulsate f pl

1. feminine plural of pulsato

Anagrams

• spatule
• spulate

Latin

Verb

puls?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of puls?

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References