palpitate

Other forms of palpitate

past tense

palpitated·

present participle

palpitating·

third person

palpitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about palpitate

What does palpitate mean?

palpitate means "cause to throb or beat rapidly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palpitate?

palpitate has 3 syllables: pal-pi-tate. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpælpəteɪt/.

What is another word for palpitate?

Close synonyms include quiver, quake, flutter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is palpitate a common word?

palpitate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.