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heart-pounding en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Causing the heart to pound; dramatically exciting or shocking.
   • In the early days, you may even experience a heart-pounding nightmare or two about being separated from your baby or your baby falling off a balcony... 2007, Sandy Jones, Marcie Jones, Michael Crocetti, Baby's First Year:
   • A simple bump in the road, an unexpected noise, a shadow, or flash of light triggered a heart-pounding, tire-screeching turnaround back to the scene... 2005, Bruce M Hyman, Cherry Pedrick, The OCD Workbook:
   • Christina Culhane maintained a heart-pounding pace until she broke her stride to glance at her plastic Swatch. 2006, Jill St Anne, The Italian Connection:
   • The anguish, the numb misery, of believing that his beloved, Kahlan had been executed, had evaporated in a heart-pounding instant the day before... 1996, Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold:

Forms

Coordinates

heart-throbbing

Deriveds

heart-poundingly