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词汇 heart-stoppingly
释义 heart-stoppingly
adverb
uk /ˈhɑːtˌstɒp.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈhɑːrtˌstɑː.pɪŋ.li/
in a way that has a very strong emotional effect, usually because of being very beautiful:
heart-stoppingly beautifulShe tells the story in heart-stoppingly beautiful prose.
He is still heart-stoppingly gorgeous at 50.
in a way that gives you a very strong feeling of fear:
Some of the experiments were heart-stoppingly dangerous.
The description of his escape across a frozen river, being shot at by the enemy, is heart-stoppingly exciting.
Related word
heart-stopping
The dancers draw the most heart-stoppingly beautiful lines with their bodies.
The Antarctic is heart-stoppingly beautiful, unimaginably huge and fascinatingly empty.
I found these paintings heart-stoppingly lovely.
The production is so imaginatively, heart-stoppingly magical.
Shares in casinos have recently been as heart-stoppingly unpredictable as a night at the roulette table.
The video shows a dog trying to cross one of the city's heart-stoppingly perilous roads.
The film is fast-talking and heart-stoppingly paced.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Beauty and attractiveness
aesthetic
attractiveness
beauty
chic
daintiness
gorgeousness
grace
gracefulness
grandeur
gussy someone/something up
magnificence
majestically
majesty
nobility
picturesqueness
stateliness
sublimity
sultriness
swoony
va-va-voom

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