Word Meanings - PANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. 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

Additional info about word: PANT

F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. 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. Dryden. 2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope. 3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser. 4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PANT)

• Palpitate
• Throb
• flutter
• beat
• pulsate
• pant

Related words: (words related to PANT)

• THROB
  To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• PULSATE
  To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin. (more info) pellere to beat, strike, drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pulse,
• PALPITATE
  To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
• FLUTTERER
  One who, or that which, flutters.
• FLUTTERINGLY
  In a fluttering manner.
• OVERFLUTTER
  To flutter over.
• AFLUTTER
  In a flutter; agitated.