Definitions
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- v. Present participle of palpitate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Beating irregularly; -- of the heart.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. having a slight and rapid trembling motion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether it would have been distasteful to the feelings of the founder of that cult is another question, and, debased or not, it is at least alive and palpitating, which is more than can be said of certain other varieties.
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Was it not more "palpitating" to set the prodigal in modern Paris?
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Beneath the bonnet (which was large) appeared a little, round, agitated old face, with bobbing white curls and white teeth set a little apart in the mouth, a defect that brought a kind of palpitating frankness into the expression.
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In two hours and a-half sixty cords of wood were transferred from the bank to the boat, and the Wasp, calling the palpitating wood-carriers around him, thus addressed them: "Now, you boys, listen.
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a little, round, agitated old face, with bobbing white curls and white teeth set a little apart in the mouth, a defect that brought a kind of palpitating frankness into the expression.
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Yet, palpitating and real, shimmering in the sun-flashed dust of ten thousand hoofs, she saw pass, from East to West, across a continent, the great hegira of the land-hungry
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She had the grace of a slender flower, the fragility of color and line of fine china, in all of which he pleasured greatly, without thought of the Life Force palpitating beneath and in spite of Bernard Shaw -- in whom he believed.
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For apart from their skin, eyes, and voice there was nothing human left in these palpitating figures.
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On them too was the drowse of blood-intimacy, calves sucking and hens running together in droves, and young geese palpitating in the hand while the food was pushed down their throttle.
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The aurora borealis painted palpitating color revels on the sky.
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