palpitate
verb🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪt/
🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪt/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they palpitate | 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪt/ 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪt/ |
| he / she / it palpitates | 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪts/ 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪts/ |
| past simple palpitated | 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle palpitated | 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form palpitating | 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈpælpɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
(of the heart 心脏 to beat rapidly and/or in an irregular way especially because of fear or excitement 急速跳动，悸动（尤指因恐惧或兴奋） He was aware of his palpitating heart. 他意识到自己的心。 Her heart was palpitating wildly. 她的心在发狂。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPalpitate is used with these nouns as the subject:- heart
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin palpitat- ‘patted’, from the verb palpitare, frequentative of palpare ‘touch gently’.