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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

... now on the verge of a sob, but by an unexpected self-command she uttered no sound. With a gentle panting ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... his body in, as somewhere I have read great elephants do, hiding their bones away from lesser beasts. It was a ravine steep and narrow even at the ends, a great cleft into which no man could come by any path. There rode Welleran alone, panting hard; and there later rode Soorenard and Mommolek, Mommolek with a mortal wound upon him not to return, but Soorenard was unwounded and rode back alone from leaving his dear friend resting among the mighty ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

... How much more these two metaphors tell of the real nature of faith than many a theological treatise! They speak of the urgency of the peril from which it seeks deliverance. A fugitive with the hot breath of the avenger of blood panting behind him, and almost feeling the spear-point in his back, would not let the grass grow under his feet. They speak of the energetic clutch of faith, as that of the man gripping the horns of the altar. They suggest that faith ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... out over the water and extended their hands to the two swimmers who were only a few feet distant now. A moment later and they had drawn John up on the shore, where he lay panting, his strength practically all used up. When they turned to assist Sam, however, they found their negro friend clambering up without ...

— The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave • Ross Kay

... panting in that frigid, rarefied air. It was night. The Moon was a gigantic, pock-marked bulk. The constellations were unrecognizable. The rodent city was a glowing expanse of shallow, crystalline domes, set among odd, scrub trees and bushes. The crags loomed on all sides, all their jaggedness lost after ...

— The Eternal Wall • Raymond Zinke Gallun

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