pant

[pant]

When you breathe hard and fast, you pant. It's perfectly normal to pant after you finish running a marathon or even after chasing your runaway dog through the neighborhood.

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To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

Noun
a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"

Noun
the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)

Verb
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

Verb
utter while panting, as if out of breath

v. i.
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

v. i.
Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

v. i.
To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

v. i.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

v. t.
To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

v. t.
To long for; to be eager after.

n.
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

n.
A violent palpitation of the heart.

Pant

Pant , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr. & vb. n. Panting.] [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF. panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the nightmare.] 1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.

2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

Who pants for glory finds but short repose.

3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser. 4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic]

The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.

Pant

Pant, v. t. 1. To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish.

2. To long for; to be eager after. [R.]

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

Pant

Pant, n. 1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. Drayton. 2. A violent palpitation of the heart. Shak.

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

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