heart-pounding
1heart-pounding — adjective 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 …
2heart-poundingly — adverb In a heart pounding manner …
3heart — W1S1 [ha:t US ha:rt] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑lung, ↑muscles, ↑stoma …
4pounding — pound|ing [ˈpaundıŋ] n 1.) [singular,U] the action or the sound of something hitting a surface very hard many times pounding of ▪ the pounding of the waves on the rocks below 2.) [singular,U] the action or sound of your heart beating 3.) take a… …
5pounding — noun 1 (singular, uncountable) the action or the sound of something repeatedly hitting a surface very hard, or of your heart beating: The pounding of hooves was getting nearer. 2 take a pounding a) to be completely defeated: Our football team… …
6heart — noun 1 part of the body ADJECTIVE ▪ healthy, strong ▪ bad, weak ▪ beating, pounding, racing ▪ …
7heart — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. center, substance; kernel, pith, gist, core; breast; spirit, courage; sympathy, affection, understanding; nature, soul. See importance, middle, feeling, interior. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The pump in… …
8pounding — noun 1. repeated heavy blows (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑buffeting • Hypernyms: ↑blow, ↑bump 2. an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) (Freq. 1) he felt a throbbing in his head …
9pounding — noun Pounding is used before these nouns: ↑bass, ↑beat, ↑headache, ↑heart, ↑rain, ↑rhythm, ↑surf …
10pound — pound1 W2S1 [paund] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(weight)¦ 2¦(money)¦ 3¦(for dogs and cats)¦ 4¦(for cars)¦ 5 get/take/demand etc your pound of flesh 6¦(telephone)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1 2, 5 6; Origin: Old English pund, from Latin pondo] [ …
