Palpitate
['pælpɪteɪt] or ['pælpə'tet]
Definition
(verb.) beat rapidly; 'His heart palpitated'.
(verb.) cause to throb or beat rapidly; 'Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart'.
Typist: Rachel--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
Inputed by Julio
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Pulsate, throb, flutter, go pit-a-pat.
Checker: Raymond
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Throb, flutter, beat, pulsate, pant
ANT:Pause, stop, cease
Typist: Trevor
Definition
v.i. to move often and quickly: to beat rapidly: to throb: to pulsate.—adj. Pal′pitant (arch.) palpitating.—n. Palpitā′tion act of palpitating: irregular action of the heart caused by excitement excessive exertion or disease.
Typist: Ora
Examples
- The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Girl number twenty stopped then, palpitating, and made him a curtsey. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Everybody was satisfied; and she was left to the tremors of a most palpitating heart, while the others prepared to begin. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It seemed to shoot out arms of fire like a cuttle-fish, like a luminous polyp, palpitating strongly before her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had her in his power, as if she were a palpitating bird, a fluttering, flushing, bewildered creature. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There the boy remained, with a palpitating heart, for half an hour. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The blue eyes of my angelic girl were fixed on this sweet emblem of herself: How the light palpitates, she said, which is that star's life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Do I fear, that my heart palpitates? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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