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pant
/pænt/
noun 6name 6verb 5
Collocations
6(verb.)
ADV
breathlessly | heavily, loudly | slightly
PREP
for
The exhausted runner was panting for air after crossing the finish line.
with
After running up the stairs, he was panting with exhaustion.
PHRASES
puff and pant
After running for the bus, she arrived at work puffing and panting heavily.
Definitions
noun
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
Eager longing.
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.
3
A violent palpitation of the heart.
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.
verb
1
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.
Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
2
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
3
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Then shall our hearts pant thee.
4
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake
5
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
[T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.
noun
1
A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
2
Of or relating to pants.
pant leg
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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.
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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
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Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
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There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
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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
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pant leg
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