palpitate

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palpitate

[′pal·pə‚tāt]

(medicine)

To flutter, or beat abnormally fast; applied especially to the rate of the heartbeat.

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But even when signals of mobile services such as the BSNL palpitate or die here, PKUF1 and PK11 -- two Pakistani mobile service providers -- are very much active.

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Lovely to be completely unstressed, I think, as I palpitate, forget to eat and tank round the city.

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It's not the actual television programme that is causing my heart to leap and palpitate, like that of my own self as a teenager at an A-ha concert.

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When I was in school, if I had to ask a question my heart would start to palpitate.