athrob

a- +‎ throb

• IPA^(key): /əˈθɹɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

athrob (not comparable)

1. 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. Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros‎, New York: Dutton, published 1952, page 356:

     […] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight,

   • 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;

• Hobart, Thabor, brotha, hotbar