panteth

Verb

pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

1. (ambitransitive) 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

2. (intransitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   crave, desire, long, pine

3. (obsolete, transitive) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
   • Then shall our hearts pant thee.1633, George Herbert, Love

   Synonyms:

   crave, desire, long for, pine for

4. (intransitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   palpitate, pound, throb

5. (intransitive) 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
6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.

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