pant´er

pant´er
pant1 «pant», verb, noun.
–v.i.
1. to breathe hard and quickly, as one does when out of breath: »

to pant from the long, steep climb. He is panting from playing tennis.

 SYNONYM(S): gasp, puff.
2. to speak with short, quick breaths: »

He panted excitedly giving us the news as he had just heard it.

3. Figurative. to long eagerly; yearn: »

Readers…were panting to hear more about him (Punch).

4. (of the heart or breast) to throb violently; palpitate; pulsate; beat.
5. to emit steam or the like in loud puffs: »

ships moving, tugs panting, hawsers taut (H. G. Wells).

–v.t.
to breathe or utter gaspingly: »

“Come quick. Come quick,” he panted. He has come, I panted (Robert Louis Stevenson).

–n.
1. a short, quick breath; catching of the breath; gasp: »

He heard the pants of the wolf running close behind him.

2. a puff or cough of an engine.
3. a throb or heave of the breast.
╂[perhaps short for Old French pantoisier, or pantiser, probably < Vulgar Latin phantasiāre be oppressed with a nightmare; < Latin phantasia. Compare etym. under fantasy. (Cf. ↑fantasy)]
–pant´er, noun.
pant2 «pant», noun, adjective.
–n.
a pair of pants.
–adj.
of or belonging to pants: »

pant cuffs, pant legs.


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