Pulsate painfully
The crossword clue "Pulsate painfully" is answered by THROB, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
THROB
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THROB answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for THROB
Every other clue in this collection answered by THROB, most used first.
- Pulsate - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
- Beat - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Pulse - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Palpitate - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pound - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Vibrate - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Beat painfully - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Yearns painfully - ACHES, used 7 times
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