pant
/pænt/ verb C2- 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.
- To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- To heave, as the breast.
- To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
He/she/it pants · Past panted · Past participle panted · -ing form panting
Verb forms
- Base form
- pant
- He/she/it
- pants
- Past
- panted
- Past participle
- panted
- -ing form
- panting
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However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?”
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
“What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:—
Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely:
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