pulse-pounding

adj
/ˈpʌls ˈpaʊndɪŋ/US

Definitions

  1. That increases the heartbeat rate, especially as a result of excitement or fear.

    • The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pulse-pounding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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