🇬🇧 Heartbeat meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Your heartbeat is the thump-thump sound and tiny movement your heart makes as it squeezes and relaxes to push blood all around your body. You can sometimes feel your heartbeat in your chest, your neck, or your wrist, especially after running or getting excited. Your heartbeat is always going, even when you’re sleeping, and it gets faster when you move a lot or feel strong emotions like fear, excitement, or love.

My heartbeat sped up when Mom said, “We need to talk,” and slowed down when she only wanted to discuss dirty socks.

During tag, my legs were running, my arms were flapping, and my heartbeat was sending fan mail to my lungs asking for more air.

My heartbeat started tap-dancing when the teacher said, “Pop quiz,” and it did a backflip when she said, “Just kidding.”

The roller coaster made my hair scream, my stomach flip, and my heartbeat write a strongly worded complaint.

Your heartbeat usually thumps over 100,000 times every day—mine does 200,000 on broccoli night.

She pressed her ear to the sleeping puppy's chest and felt a tiny heartbeat. The heartbeat was slow, then the heartbeat sped up when it woke and sniffed her. She counted heartbeat by heartbeat, fingers trembling. When the fourth thump settled, her own heartbeat slowed; she laughed and lay back, content.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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