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agasp

agasp adjective: in a state of gasping.

Adjective

agasp (not comparable)

  1. (literary) In a state of gasping.
    • This dynamic of life and death is extended by the fact that Caravaggio often painted the same agasp expression in many of his living faces.2010, Davide Panagia, The Political Life of Sensation, →ISBN, page 104

Origin of agasp

From a- + gasp.

Questions about agasp

What does agasp mean?
Agasp means in a state of gasping.
What part of speech is agasp?
Agasp is an adjective.

Words near agasp in the dictionary

  1. Agarwals
  2. agarwood
  3. agarwoods
  4. agas
  5. Agashe
  6. agasp
  7. Agassaim
  8. agassi
  9. Agassis
  10. Agassiz
  11. Agassiz's anole

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