I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;
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Aflutter
//əˈflʌt.ɚ//
Synonyms for "aflutter" (4 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 7 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- sekaisin adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
- täpinöissä adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
French
1 entries- tremblé adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
German
1 entries- aufgeregt adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
Italian
1 entries- svolazzante adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
Japanese
2 entries- ときめき adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
- どきどき adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
Portuguese
1 entries- tremulante adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
Spanish
1 entries- agitado adj (in a state of excited anticipation)
Sample sentences
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1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old
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The winds bared her limbs, the opposing breezes set her garments aflutter as she ran, and a light air flung her locks streaming behind her.
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An electric guitar lick […] imposed itself in his mind as a major symbol of virility and youth, notes rising like scimitars, aftertones aflutter like birds, the bending of a blues note like the rising arc of an erection.
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