panting

Meaning of panting

adjective
  1. breathing with short, quick breaths; out of breath.
    a panting dog
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. breathe with short, quick breaths, typically from exertion or excitement.
    he was panting when he reached the top
  2. long for or to do something.
    the opening song makes you pant for more

Middle English: related to Old French pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’, based on Greek phantasioun ‘cause to imagine’, from phantasia (see fantasy).

Information about panting

  • The plural form of panting is: pantings.
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Hyphenation of panting

pant-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • panting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

panting synonyms

Meaning blown:

blown, gasping, pursy, winded

Meaning heaving:

heaving

Meaning trousering:

trousering

Meaning breathe in repeated short gasps:

puff, puffing

Meaning catch one's breath with an open mouth, owing to pain or astonishment:

gasp

Meaning breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in the chest, as a result of obstruction in the air passages:

wheeze

Meaning lift or haul (something heavy) with great effort:

heave

Meaning breathe hard; pant:

blow

Meaning gasping for breath, typically due to exertion:

breathless

Meaning breathing with a whistling or rattling sound in the chest:

wheezing

Meaning making the sound of a person wheezing:

wheezy

Meaning feel a powerful desire for (something):

crave

Meaning strongly wish for or want (something):

desire

Meaning have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for:

want

Meaning yearn to possess (something, especially something belonging to another):

covet

Translation of panting

Words that rhyme with panting

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