palpitate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin palpitō, palpitātus (“throb, pulsate, palpitate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpælpɪteɪt/
Verb
palpitate (third-person singular simple present palpitates, present participle palpitating, simple past and past participle palpitated)
- (intransitive) To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.
- When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.
- (transitive) To cause to beat strongly or rapidly.
- The allergy medicine palpitates my heart.
- (intransitive) To shake tremulously
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
- I was now so bruised, so batter'd, so spent with this over-match, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case:
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
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Synonyms
- (to beat rapidly): flutter, pound, throb
- (to shake tremulously): quiver, tremble, vibrate
Derived terms
- palpitant
- palpitation
Translations
of the heart: to beat strongly or rapidly
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to cause to beat strongly or rapidly
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to shake tremulously
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Italian
Verb
palpitate
- inflection of palpitare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
palpitate f pl
- feminine plural of palpitato
Latin
Verb
palpitāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of palpitō