He makes young girls' hearts flutter.
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Flutter
//ˈflʌtə//
Synonyms for "flutter" (412 found)
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Closest matches (83)
disturbanceflapflickerflitpalpitatewavewaveraddleaddle the witsadoagiotageagitateagitationarbitragearrhythmiaasking priceball upbarragebatbearish prices
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Strong matches (123)
disquietudedistortiondisturbditherdithersdriftdrivedrumdrum musicdrumbeatdrumfiredrummingelectrifyembarrassembarrassmententangleequity capitalface valuefalterfeedback
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feery-faryfermentfidgetfidgetinessfidgetsfitfixed priceflappingflareflash priceflauntflickflickeringflickering lightflierflipflip outflitterfloatflopflourishfluctuatefluctuatingfluctuationflummoxflurryflusterflusterationflustrationflutterinessflutteringflyflyerfogfoofarawfreak outfreak out onfrenzyfretfuddlefuddlementfussfussinessget high onglancing lightglowgo pitapatgutterhastehave the fidgetshave the shakeshazeheartbeatheartthrobheaveheavinghelter skelterhelter-skelterhighhissinghoverhowlinghubbubhullabaloohumhurryhurry abouthurry scurryhurry-scurryhustleinquietudeissue parissue pricejarjerkjoltjumblejumplambencylatherlibratelight showliquidationlowlurchmaelstrommake a fussmarket pricemarket value
Related words (206)
mazemessmistmix upmoidermotorboatingmuddlemuddlementnominal valuenutateoffering priceopening priceoscillateoscillatingoscillationpalpitationpantpantingparpar value
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2 entriesTranslations
111 translations across 32 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- wapper verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Armenian
2 entries- ծածանվել verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- ծփալ verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Bulgarian
4 entries- възбуда noun (state of agitation)
- вълнение noun (state of agitation)
- пляскане noun (act of fluttering)
- пърхане noun (act of fluttering)
Catalan
2 entries- flamejar verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- onejar verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Central Kurdish
4 entries- شەقە verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- شەقە verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- شەقە verb (to cause something to flutter)
- فرتەفرت verb (to cause something to flutter)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 撲扇 /扑扇 verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Czech
1 entries- třepetat verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Dutch
4 entries- dooreenander noun (state of agitation)
- gokje noun (small bet)
- hartkloppingen noun (abnormal rapid pulsation of heart)
- wapperen verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Esperanto
1 entries- flirti verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Faroese
3 entries- blaktra verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- flagsa verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- flagsa verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Finnish
4 entries- lepatus noun (act of fluttering)
- läpyttely noun (act of fluttering)
- läpytys noun (act of fluttering)
- pikkuveto noun (small bet)
French
4 entries- battement noun (act of fluttering)
- faséyer verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- voleter verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- voltiger verb (to flap or wave quickly)
German
3 entries- Flattern noun (abnormal rapid pulsation of heart)
- flattern verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- wedeln verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Greenlandic
4 entries- eqquiniunnguaq noun (small bet)
- angaluppoq verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- erfalavoq verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- isaqqilavoq verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Ingrian
1 entries- viuhkaa verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Italian
4 entries- garrire verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- ondeggiare verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- sbattere le ali verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- sventolare verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Japanese
1 entries- 飛び回る verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Lithuanian
1 entries- suklaidinti verb (to drive into disorder; to throw into confusion)
Marathi
4 entries- आस्फारण noun (act of fluttering)
- फडफड noun (act of fluttering)
- स्पंदन noun (abnormal rapid pulsation of heart)
- स्फुरण noun (act of fluttering)
Māori
4 entries- arowhaki verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- kapakapa verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- kōrewharewha verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- pepe verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Norwegian
1 entries- blafre verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- flagre verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- flakse verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- flakse verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طالغهلانمق verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Polish
4 entries- kołatanie noun (abnormal rapid pulsation of heart)
- palpitacja noun (abnormal rapid pulsation of heart)
- trzepot noun (act of fluttering)
- trzepotać verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Portuguese
4 entries- tremulação noun (act of fluttering)
- drapejar verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- esvoaçar verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- tremular verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Romanian
1 entries- flutura verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Russian
4 entries- порхание noun (act of fluttering)
- трепет noun (act of fluttering)
- бить кры́льями verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- маха́ть кры́льями verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- itealaich verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Spanish
4 entries- aletear verb (to flap the wings without flying)
- flamear verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- ondear verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- tremolar verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Swedish
2 entries- fladdra verb (to flap or wave quickly)
- flaxa verb (to flap the wings without flying)
Ukrainian
1 entries- майоріти verb (to flap or wave quickly)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
I see a tattered flag which continues to flutter in the wind.
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The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
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The white curtains flutter in the breeze in a heavy, lazy motion, like waves.
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