Pant

/pænt/ · noun

Meaning

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation..

Definitions by Sense

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
2. (figurative) Eager longing.
3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
4. (ambitransitive) 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.
5. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
7. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
8. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

Example Sentences

Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.

To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.

Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.

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

Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed

As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her.

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

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• pants
• panting
• panted

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