The AI-powered English dictionary
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. examples
(transitive) To cause to beat strongly or rapidly. examples
(intransitive) To shake tremulously quotations examples
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
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] […]
“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. […]”
1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case