Sekirov Dictionary

pant

/pænt/

verb 7
noun 7
forms 5

verb7

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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
To heave, as the breast.
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To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks. — 1611
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Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake — 1590
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To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- [T]he whisp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees. — 1709
To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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(no longer used) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
- Then shall our hearts pant thee. — 1633

noun7

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A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.
[before a noun] Of or relating to pants.
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
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(informal, nonstandard) A leg on a pair of trousers.
- he rolled up one of the black trouser pants on his left leg and searched for a vein. — 2012
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(figurative) Eager longing.
- Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant. — 1995
Any public drinking fountain.
(no longer used) A violent palpitation of the heart.

forms

panted · panting · panteth · pants · pantest

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