vibrate

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
2. verb To resonate.

   Her mind was vibrating with excitement.

3. verb To brandish; to swing to and fro.

   to vibrate a sword or a staff

4. verb To mark or measure by moving to and fro.

   a pendulum vibrating seconds

5. verb To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
6. verb To please or impress someone.
7. verb To use vibrato.
8. verb To pleasure someone using a vibrator.

Similar words

oscillate shake shudder warm vibrator eardrum tick tremble quiver evibrate

Often followed by

in with at and to the as through by

Word family

vibrated vibrates vibrating