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pant

verb

  1. to breathe hard with quick, agitated breaths
  2. speak pantingly
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noun

  1. act or process of breathing heavily
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pænt/ / /pant/ / /pæːnt/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi पंत (panta).

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Unknown.

  1. Any public drinking fountain.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

  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.

    Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her.

  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.

  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.