| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Palpitate.[Websters]
2. To be battered or crumpled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have trembled, shivered, quivered, shuddered or quailed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have vibrated, cowered, simmered or thrilled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have dithered, faltered or wavered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have floated, started or winced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have quavered or doddered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have oscillated, heaved, tottered, staggered or jogged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have stirred, jiggled, thrashed, wriggled or threshed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have thumped or raped.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb palpitate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (palpitate) | 1. Cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart".[Wordnet]. 2. Shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated".[Wordnet]. 3. Beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated".[Wordnet]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: palpitating, palpitated, palpitates, palpitater, palpitaters, palpitatingly and palpitatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "PALPITATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
Specialty Definition: palpitate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To beat gently; to beat, as the heart; to flutter, that is, to move with little throws; as we say, to go pit a pat; applied particularly to a preternatural or excited movement of the heart.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (intransitive) to throb, beat strongly. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
