0 present participle of palpitate
1 (of the heart) to beat very fast and in a way that is not regular:
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!
A collective, palpitating expectation swept over us, like the moment before a great sneeze.
There is a great country palpitating and pulsating in the midst of these tremendous troubles between labour and capital.
It is as though the heart were not palpitating properly.
The dead assets are suddenly to become live things, palpitating with new life and, possibilities.
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.
