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heart-pounding

adj

Definitions

  1. Causing the heart to pound

    Causing the heart to pound; dramatically exciting or shocking.

    • The anguish, the numb misery, of believing that his beloved, Kahlan had been executed, had evaporated in a heart-pounding instant the day before...
    • 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...
    • Christina Culhane maintained a heart-pounding pace until she broke her stride to glance at her plastic Swatch.

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