Definition of "heartstopping" [heartstopping]

• Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats. (adjective)

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• "ER and Baby in the same sentence is heartstopping enough without serial poopsplosions. i hope everyone is better now."
• "All I need to say is this-I got so caught up in this heartstopping book that I missed both lunch and supper as I couldn't stop reading."
• "There is in the piece of short fiction a moment of time, a beating pulse of emotion, often a heartstopping last line."