pant
verb
- to breathe hard with quick, agitated breaths
- speak pantingly
noun
- act or process of breathing heavily
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pænt/ / /pant/ / /pæːnt/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi पंत (panta).
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Unknown.
- 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”).
- 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.”
- 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.”
- To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
“Then shall our hearts pant thee.”
- Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
“Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake”
- To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
“[T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.”
- To heave, as the breast.
- To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.