See Also: pant(medicine)
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pant verb. [pant] ME.
[Rel. to Old French pantaisier be agitated, gasp, pant from Proto-Romance from Greek phantasioun cause to imagine, make game of, from phantasia: see FANTASY noun.]
verb intrans. Breathe hard or with quick short breaths, as from exertion or agitation; gasp for breath. ME.
R. Thomas Amy was panting slightly from her climb. fig.: Pope The dying gales that pant upon the trees.
b. Go or run (as if) panting. E18.
c. Of an engine etc.: emit hot air, vapour, etc., in loud puffs. M18.
verb intrans. Of the heart or chest: throb or heave violently or rapidly, esp. from strong emotion; palpitate, pulsate. LME.
M. Prior For breath his panting bosom heaves. Shelley Her very name, But spoken by a stranger, makes my heart Sicken and pant.
verb intrans. Gasp for air, water, etc.; fig. long with breathless eagerness; yearn for, after, or to do. M16.
E. Young All the bliss I pant for, is..a refuge from severer pain.
verb trans.
a. Say gaspingly; gasp out. E17.
A. Ransome 'It's just the wind we want,' panted Daisy.
b. Drive forth or out by agitated gasping. poet. E17-E19.
verb intrans. Of a ship: have its hull move in and out as a result of the stress produced by the movement of the water. Chiefly as panting verbal noun. M19.
pantingly adverb with quick short breaths E17.