Pant

Quick meaning: Pant is a noun meaning (figurative) Eager longing.

Meaning

(figurative) Eager longing.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
3. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
4. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
5. 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.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Example Sentences

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

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

Word Forms

• pants
• panting
• panted

Synonyms for pant

Depending on context, synonyms include gasp, crave, desire, long, pine, palpitate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gasp, puff, heave, hoot, screen, hoots.

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