palpitate
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Borrowed from Latin palpitō, palpitātus (“throb, pulsate, palpitate”).
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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:
- 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
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “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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of the heart: to beat strongly or rapidly
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palpitate
- inflection of palpitare:
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palpitate f pl
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palpitāte
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palpitate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of palpitar combined with te