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English
Etymology
From a- + throb.
Pronunciation
Adjective
athrob (not comparable)
- Throbbing.
1858, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Alfred, Westminster, act V, page 50:Thou wondrous harper, that hast thrilled my heart, […]
And made me all athrob with ecstasy,—
1911, James Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Nine-Tenths, New York: Harper, pages 57–58:The great test was on, whether such a nation could live, and Boston was athrob with love of country and eagerness to sacrifice.
1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 303:[…] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight, for it was yet an hour until the rising of the moon.
1974, Robert Fitzgerald, transl., The Iliad, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, Book 16, p. 393:I have my sore wound, all my length of arm
a-throb with lancing pain;
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