Alive and Pulsating

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Alive adjective - Having or showing life.

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Pulsating and alive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pulsating" instead an adjective "Alive".

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Alive and pulsating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alive" instead an adjective "Pulsating".

Nearby Words: pulsate, pulsation, pulsated, pulsatory

This happens to most of the bosses in the Mario & Luigi series, usually in a flurry of stars (or in the case of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, multiple pink, pulsating circles along with the stars) even if they are alive in the cutscene that follows.

Source: Defeat Equals Explosion
At one point when Cat tries to brush Dog's teeth so his (Cat's) teeth will be perfect he turns himself inside out and crawls inside Dog's mouth and we see what is essentially a skinned alive Cat with pulsating veins and his nerves and muscles exposed.

Source: Nausea Fuel / Western Animation
Lewis' That Hideous Strength, where the evil scientists have taken the head of an executed criminal and are keeping it alive(-ish) it to channel demonic forces; they've removed the top of the head and its "augmented" brains are bulging out over the top, pulsating under membrane. AAARGH.

Source: My Brain Is Big

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