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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALPITATE)

• Flutter
• Vibrate
• quiver
• palpitate
• flicker
• flit

Related words: (words related to PALPITATE)

• 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.