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      pant
      noun
      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.
      (figurative) Eager longing.
      (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
      (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
      (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
      A surname.
      A river in Essex, England, which forms the upper part of the Blackwater.
      A village in Llanymynech and Pant parish, Shropshire, England, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SJ2722).
      A village and community in Merthyr Tydfil borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0609).
      A locality in Austwick parish, North Yorkshire, England.
      A locality in Ayrshire, Scotland.
      (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
      verb
      (ambitransitive) 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.
      (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
      (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
      (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
      (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
      (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
      (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
      Roots
      phantasiounpant- · Greek · to gasp, imagine wildly
      Synonyms for pant
      gaspnpuffnwheezensuspirationn
      Words related to pant
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