Usually means: Pulsed or beat with pain.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. throbbed: Merriam-Webster
  2. throbbed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. throbbed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. throbbed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Throbbed, throbbed: Wordnik
  6. throbbed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. throbbed: Wiktionary
  8. throbbed: Dictionary.com
  9. throbbed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Throbbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Throbbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. throbbed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. throbbed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throbbed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. throbbed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. throbbed: Medical dictionary

(Note: See throb as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (throb)

verb:  (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
verb:  (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
verb:  (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
verb:  (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
noun:  A beating, vibration or palpitation.
▸ Also see throb


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