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Pant   /pænt/   Listen
verb
Pant  v. t.  
1.
To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. "There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish."
2.
To long for; to be eager after. (R.) "Then shall our hearts pant thee."


Pant  v. i.  (past & past part. panted; pres. part. panting)  
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 plants for breath from out his cell."
2.
Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; often used with for or after. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks." "Who pants for glory finds but short repose."
3.
To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; said of the heart.
4.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish. (Poetic) "The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees."


noun
Pant  n.  
1.
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
2.
A violent palpitation of the heart.


pant  n.  A single leg of a pair of pants. See pants.


adjective
pant  adj.  Of or pertaining to pants.





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"Pant" Quotes from Famous Books



... miry lane, Still we pant and pound in vain; Still with leaden foot we chase Waning pinion, fainting face; Still with gray hair we stumble on, Till, behold, the vision gone! Where hath fleeting beauty led? To the doorway of the dead. Life is over, life was gay: We have ...
— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various
... bank they pant, And all unlace the country shoe; Their fingers tug the garter-knots To loose the hose of varied hue. The flashing knee at last appears, The lower curves of youth and grace, Whereat the girls intently scan The mazy thickets of the place. But who's ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... life whereof our nerves are scant, O life, not death, for which we pant; More life and ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... wheresoe'er I tread, This giddy world still rattles round my head! I pant for silence e'en in this retreat— Good Heaven! what demon thunders ...
— Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett - With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett
... did stand, Ascended he, and with him Solyman, He took the reins, and with a mastering hand Ruled his steeds, and whipped them now and than, The wheels or horses' feet upon the land Had left no sign nor token where they ran, The coursers pant and smoke with lukewarm sweat And, foaming cream, ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso


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