puff and pant
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puff and blow — ˌpuff and ˈpant idiom (also ˌpuff and ˈblow, informal) to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth after physical effort • Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate. Main entry: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
puff — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 of air/smoke/wind ADJECTIVE ▪ little, small, tiny PREPOSITION ▪ puff of ▪ a little puff of smoke … Collocations dictionary
pant — verb ADVERB ▪ heavily, loudly ▪ slightly, softly PREPOSITION ▪ for ▪ He was panting for breath … Collocations dictionary
puff — [n1] blast of air breath, draft, drag, draught, draw, emanation, flatus, flurry, gust, pull, smoke, waft, whiff, wind, wisp; concepts 437,524 puff [n2] advertisement advertising, blurb*, boost*, buildup*, commendation, favorable mention, good… … New thesaurus
pant — pant1 pantingly, adv. /pant/, v.i. 1. to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion. 2. to gasp, as for air. 3. to long with breathless or intense eagerness; yearn: to pant for revenge. 4. to throb or heave violently or rapidly; palpitate. 5. to … Universalium
pant — Synonyms and related words: Aqua Lung, ache for, aim, artificial respiration, aspiration, aspire, asthmatic wheeze, bake, bark, bawl, be dying for, be hurting for, be in heat, beat, bellow, blare, blat, blaze, bloom, blow, blubber, boil, boom,… … Moby Thesaurus
puff — n. & v. n. 1 a a short quick blast of breath or wind. b the sound of this; a similar sound. c a small quantity of vapour, smoke, etc., emitted in one blast (went up in a puff of smoke). 2 a cake etc. containing jam, cream, etc., and made of light … Useful english dictionary
puff — Synonyms and related words: Aqua Lung, Danish pastry, French pastry, PR, acknowledgment, add to, adulate, advertise, advertisement, advocate, aggrandize, amplify, apotheosize, appreciation, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze,… … Moby Thesaurus
pant — verb Syn: breathe heavily, breathe hard, puff and blow, huff and puff, gasp, heave, wheeze … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
pant — pant1 [pant] vi. [ME panten, prob. contr. < OFr pantaisier < VL * phantasiare, to suffer from a nightmare < L phantasia, idea, notion, nightmare: see FANTASY] 1. to breathe rapidly and heavily; gasp, as from running fast 2. to beat… … English World dictionary
