palpitateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpælpɪteɪt/

動詞

palpitate (三人称単数 現在形 palpitates, 現在分詞 palpitating, 過去形および過去分詞形 palpitated)

1. (intransitive) To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.

   When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.

2. (transitive) To cause to beat strongly or rapidly.

   The allergy medicine palpitates my heart.

3. (intransitive) To shake tremulously
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter または volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     I was now so bruised, so batter'd, so spent with this over-match, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case‎^[1]:

     “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”

同意語

• (to beat rapidly): flutter, pound, throb
• (to shake tremulously): quiver, tremble, vibrate

派生語

• palpitant
• palpitation