panted
panted is the simple past and past participle of pant.
Meaning of pant
Verb
pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)
- 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.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- gasp
- To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 42:1
- To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
- Then shall our hearts pant thee.1633, George Herbert, Love
- Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- [T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 750
- To heave, as the breast.
Adjective
panted (not comparable)
- Synonym of trousered.
- From six large buildings, along six different pathways, walk, hobble, or shuffle nearly 250 white-coated and blue-panted figures to the great Central Hall.1915, “Our Sumatra Leper Colony”, in All the World, volume XXXVI, page 576
- An inside contact reports that fashion artists are being told to draw their panted women to "look like lesbians."1964, The Ladder, Arno Press, page 16
- Synonyms:
- trousered
Synonyms of panted
Forms of panted
| alternative form | pantsed |
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Origin of panted
From pant + -ed.
Phrases with panted
Questions about panted
- What does panted mean?
- Panted means synonym of trousered.
- What is panted the simple past and past participle of?
- Panted is the simple past and past participle of pant.
- What part of speech is panted?
- Panted is an adjective.
Words near panted in the dictionary
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