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Word Meanings - PALPITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • VIBRATE
    brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
  • FLUTTER
    1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
  • FLICKERMOUSE
    See FLITTERMOUSE
  • FLICKER
    1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro.
  • QUIVERED
    1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
  • QUIVER
    Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
  • PALPITATE
    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.
  • FLUTTERER
    One who, or that which, flutters.
  • QUIVERINGLY
    With quivering motion.
  • FLUTTERINGLY
    In a fluttering manner.
  • FLICKERINGLY
    In a flickering manner.
  • AFLICKER
    In a flickering state.
  • REVIBRATE
    To vibrate back or in return. -- Re`vi*bra"tion, n.
  • EVIBRATE
    To vibrate. Cockeram.
  • OVERFLUTTER
    To flutter over.
  • AFLUTTER
    In a flutter; agitated.

 

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