throb

/θrɒb/ verb [I] (present participle throbbing, past tense and past participle throbbed)

Definition

PART OF THE BODY › If a part of your body throbs, you feel pain in it in a series of regular beats: My head was throbbing.

SOUND OR MOVEMENT › to make a strong, regular sound or movement: The whole house throbbed with the music.

throb noun [C] › the throb of the engine

(Definition of throb verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future

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