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verb

Pant v. t.

To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. "There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish."

To long for; to be eager after. (R.) "Then shall our hearts pant thee."

Pant v. i. (past & past part. panted; pres. part. panting)

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."

Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; often used with for or after. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks." "Who pants for glory finds but short repose."

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

To sigh; to flutter; to languish. (Poetic) "The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees."

noun

panting n.

The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.

Synonyms: heaving.

Any fabric used to make trousers.

Synonyms: trousering.

adjective

panting adj. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.

Synonyms: gasping, out-of-breath(predicate), pursy, short-winded, winded.

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Etymology of 'Panting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Panting" Quotes from Famous Books

... off," she shouted, speaking fast, panting and coughing. "You don't know what you ask; you are like a child! I've told you before that I am not coming back to that drunken German. Let everyone, let all Petersburg see the children begging in the streets, ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... Grimly the panting and dripping William dragged him through the kitchen, where the cook cried out unintelligibly, seeming to summon Adelia, who was not present. Through the back yard went captor and prisoner, the latter now maintaining a seated posture—his pathetic conception of dignity under duress. Finally, ...

— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington

... droll than Mr. Bingle venturing into the water as a rescuer. At last, moved by an impulse that afterwards took its place as the psychic capstone in her career, she arose and resolutely went to his relief. He was panting and perspiring, for the spring day ...

— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

... possessed with the notion that a colony of white people existed three or four hundred miles in the interior, south-west of the settlement. This tale, highly embellished, was sufficient to inflame the imaginations of men condemned to servitude, and panting for liberty. The existing rumour being found out by the authorities, it proved on investigation that so far had this preposterous legend gained ground that written instructions had been issued for guidance to this Arcadia, accompanied with a paper having the figure of a compass drawn on it. ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... tell Jake what the delay was, and have him wait till we could go to Brace's and find out how things was there. It was getting pretty dim by the time we turned the corner of the woods, sweating and panting with that long run, and see the sycamores thirty yards ahead of us; and just then we see a couple of men run into the bunch and heard two or three terrible screams for help. "Poor Jake is killed, sure," we says. We was scared through and through, and broke for the tobacker field and hid there, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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