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panting

panting

11 2.6
Breathing quickly and heavily after exercise or when very excited
  • noun
  • /ˈpæntɪŋ/
: jadeo
  • The dog was panting heavily after chasing the ball in the park.
  • gasping and panting
  • heavy panting
  • panting dog

Dogs do not sweat, they cool themselves by panting.

Examples

  • While most other women surrendered their breath capacities to whalebone corsets, the panting, cycling woman was a deviant.

    Academic text (2012)

  • I can hear him panting like an athlete.

  • When Mrs. Shaw picked up the phone, he made panting noises, and she laughed at him.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Then she held a child, small and panting, its tiny arms winding around her neck.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • And except for the soft panting breaths of the others, the marsh was quiet.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Through open windows, they hear the panting rumble of a truck drawn up at the curb.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • So I had driven away with a panting, slobbering dog in my backseat.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Several NEWSIES loiter near the gates as DAVID runs up, panting, and looks into the courtyard.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • No words passed, only Sterrit's panting bursts of laughter and the murmur of the woman.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Then the wolfhound bitch raises her head, panting, and glares with malice into her private darkness.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

heaving
vspanting
3 4.6

Heavy, loud breathing after hard exercise or strong feeling

is quicker and shallower rather than slow and effortful breathing
breathlessness
vspanting
2 4.6

Difficulty breathing that makes you feel you cannot get enough air

refers to fast heavy breathing rather than a general difficulty inhaling

How Breathless

panting
11 2.6
gasp
137 1.8
breathing
275 1.0

Surface Forms

panting singular
pantings plural

Morphology

panting = pant (transparent) = pant + ing

A straightforward gerund/nominalization from the verb 'pant' meaning the act or process of panting.

Etymology

The word panting comes from the simple sound-word pant, which copies the short, gasping noise people and animals make when they breathe fast. So panting means 'breathing quickly and heavily', usually after exercise or when excited.