pulsed

Verb

pulse (third-person singular simple present pulses, present participle pulsing, simple past and past participle pulsed)

1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
   • Though a light of love she swimmeth, / Zoned with utterless desire, / And the air of her swift coming / Through thy hot veins pulseth fire.1850, W[illiam] C[ox] Bennett, “The Shadow-hunted”, in Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 139
2. (transitive) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
3. (transitive) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
4. (transitive) To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
5. (transitive) To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
6. (figuratively, intransitive, literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
   • Hot blood pulsed through my veins as I grew angrier.

   Synonyms:

   undulate

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