palpitating
present participle ofpalpitate
palpitate
verb[I]
uk/ˈpæl.pɪ.teɪt/us/ˈpæl.pə.teɪt/(of theheart) tobeatveryfastand in a way that is notregular:
Myheartwas palpitatingwithfear.
The circulatory system & blood
- ABO
- accessory pathway
- antegrade
- anterograde
- anti-platelet
- blood donor
- blood vessel
- capillary
- erectile
- immunoglobulin
- intravascular
- intravenously
- jugular
- jugular vein
- Rh factor
- vasodilation
- VEGF
- veined
- vena
- venosus
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Making short, sudden movements
Examplesofpalpitating
palpitating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is thus necessary to study them when they are dead, to tear them apart, to bone them, to probe theirpalpitatingentrails at leisure!
From theCambridge English Corpus
A collective,palpitatingexpectation swept over us, like the moment before a great sneeze.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is a great countrypalpitatingand pulsating in the midst of these tremendous troubles between labour and capital.
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It is as though the heart were notpalpitatingproperly.
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The dead assets are suddenly to become live things,palpitatingwith new life and, possibilities.
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His poems speak of the desert, a space swarming with life,palpitatinglike the heart of planet, the richness of its silence and the force of its people.
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