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Vibrate

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Verb

1. vibrate

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

2. oscillate, vibrate

move or swing from side to side regularly

Example Sentences:
'the needle on the meter was oscillating'

3. hover, oscillate, vacillate, vibrate

be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

Example Sentences:
'He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement'

4. resonate, vibrate

sound with resonance

Example Sentences:
'The sound resonates well in this theater'

5. thrill, tickle, vibrate

feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

Example Sentences:
'he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vibrate

see synonyms of vibrate
verb
1. 
to move or cause to move back and forth rapidly; shake, quiver, or throb
2. (intransitive)
to oscillate
3. 
to send out (a sound) by vibration; resonate or cause to resonate
4. (intransitive)
to waver
5. physics
to undergo or cause to undergo an oscillatory or periodic process, as of an alternating current; oscillate
6. (intransitive) rare
to respond emotionally; thrill

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Vibrate

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈviˌbrated or ˈviˌbrating
1. 
to give off (light or sound) by vibration
2. 
to set in to-and-fro motion; oscillate
3. 
to cause to quiver
verb intransitive
4. 
to swing back and forth; oscillate, as a pendulum
5. 
to move rapidly back and forth; quiver, as a plucked string
6. 
to resound
said of sounds
7. 
to be emotionally stirred; thrill
8. 
to waver or vacillate, as between two choices

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vibrate

see synonyms of vibrate
v. vi·brat·ed, vi·brat·ing, vi·brates
v. intr.
1.
a. To move back and forth or to and fro, especially rhythmically and rapidly: The eardrum vibrates in response to sound waves. See Synonyms at swing.
b. To progress in a given direction while moving back and forth rapidly: The sound wave vibrated through the water.
2. To be in a state of great activity, excitement, or agitation: “Even as the film moved … to the more deadly fields of Vietnam, old hatreds vibrated in me” (Loudon Wainwright).
3. To produce a sound; resonate: “The noise of cars and motorcycles, voices and music vibrates from the street” (Edmundo Paz Solden).
4. To fluctuate or waver, as between states or in making choices: “The fear of repetition and the lure of repetition: these are the two poles between which the movie vibrates” (Wendy Lesser).
v. tr.
1. To cause to move back and forth rapidly: The rattlesnake vibrated its tail.
2. To produce (sound) by vibration.
n.
A setting on a cellphone that causes the it to shake rapidly without producing a ringtone when a call or text message is received.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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