Synonyms:
palpitant, palpitating
Meaning: having a slight and rapid trembling motion; "palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions"; "my palpitating heart"
Usage examples
'What do you mean?' said Mrs. Bardell, with a palpitating heart.
Panting and palpitating with excitement, she met Abram half-way on his return trip.
And love is something more than all its elements--a palpitating, quivering, sensitive, living thing. By synthesis of all the colors, men can make whiteness, they cannot make light.
The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching.