palpitate
verb (used without object)
to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter.
palpitated
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past participleof palpitate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof palpitate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
palpitateverb (used without object)to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter.
Example Sentences
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Mine, by contrast, palpitated so furiously that I braced myself for cardiac arrest.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
No country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true.
From Time Magazine Archive
My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
How shadow, now, were those lives that had so lately palpitated in this very place: how strange their silence, their incommunicable knowledge, their fathomless peace!
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
