0 present participle of palpitate --
1 (of the heart) to beat very fast and in a way that is not regular: --
His poems speak of the desert, a space swarming with life, palpitating like the heart of planet, the richness of its silence and the force of its people.
The dead assets are suddenly to become live things, palpitating with new life and, possibilities.
It is as though the heart were not palpitating properly.
There is a great country palpitating and pulsating in the midst of these tremendous troubles between labour and capital.
A collective, palpitating expectation swept over us, like the moment before a great sneeze.
It is thus necessary to study them when they are dead, to tear them apart, to bone them, to probe their palpitating entrails at leisure!