'Panting' definitions:
Definition of 'panting'
(from WordNet)
noun
Breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: panting, heaving]
noun
Any fabric used to make trousers [syn: panting, trousering]
Definition of 'Panting'
From: GCIDE
- Pant \Pant\ (p[.a]nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr. & vb. n. Panting.] [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF. panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the nightmare.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after. [1913 Webster]
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks. --Ps. xlii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Who pants for glory finds but short repose. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'panting'
From: GCIDE
- panting \panting\ adj. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
- Syn: gasping, out-of-breath(predicate), pursy, short-winded, winded. [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'panting'
From: GCIDE
- panting \panting\ n. The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.
- Syn: heaving. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Any fabric used to make trousers.
- Syn: trousering. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'panting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- all agog,
- animated,
- anxious,
- asthmatic,
- avid,
- breakneck,
- breathing,
- breathless,
- breathlessness,
- bursting to,
- desirous,
- didder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dithers,
- dyspnea,
- eager,
- errhine,
- expiratory,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- flutter,
- forward,
- full of life,
- headlong,
- heaving,
- huffing,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inquietude,
- inspiratory,
- keen,
- labored breathing,
- lively,
- nasal,
- out of breath,
- palpitation,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pneumonic,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- prompt,
- puffing,
- pulmonary,
- pulmonic,
- quaking,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- quick,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- raring to,
- rash,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- respiratory,
- restlessness,
- rhinal,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shiver,
- shivers,
- short-breathed,
- short-winded,
- shortness of breath,
- shudder,
- sneezy,
- sniffling,
- sniffly,
- sniffy,
- snoring,
- snorting,
- snuffling,
- snuffly,
- snuffy,
- spirited,
- sternutatory,
- stertorous,
- sudden,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- tremor,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- twitter,
- unrest,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wheezing,
- wheezy,
- winded,
- zestful