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• v  cause to throb or beat rapidly
• v  shake with fast, tremulous movements
• v  beat rapidly
• s  having a slight and rapid trembling motion
  my palpitating heart

• The tribe's seven-man combo plays to packed and palpitating houses at such uptown discotheques as Cheetah and .
• The ferries were Chinese owned and run, and very efficient, and we had hardly sat down before the water was churning again, the engines rumbling, the boat palpitating--and we were .
• But under emotional stress, no man, however impassive, can keep his finger tips from palpitating.

• palpitate
• quiver
• quake
• flutter
• palpitant

News & Articles

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• 7 Essential Life Lessons From Kids' To-Do Lists
  As you grow older, your to-do list tends to age too Even if the thought of all the things you need to tackle sends your heart palpitating, these sometimes-hilarious, always-adorable to-do lists written by children certainly won't See also: 15 Notes That Prove Kids Write the Darndest Things In fact, they even serve as refreshing life lesson reminders Image: Flickr, timlewisnm Read more... More ...
  Aug. 22, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Edward Weston in New York Times
  The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh,Edward wrote in a 1932 manifesto for Group f/64, a San Francisco...
• Henry David Thoreau in Los Angeles Times
  Thoreau, who watched such an operation, wrote, "Joe [his Penobscot guide] now proceeded to skin the moose with a pocket knife, while I looked on, and a tragical business it was; to see that still warm and palpitating body pierced with a knife, to...
• Michael Bakunin in Infoshop News
  The complexity and richness of the concrete and particular life always escapes scientific description: "Life," Bakunin writes, "is wholly fugitive and temporary, but also wholly palpitating with reality and individuality, sensibility, sufferings,...