Word Direct Answers

What does "gasp" mean?

Gasp: To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire. Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc. And with short sobs he gasps away his breath. Dryden.
  2. 3.The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath. At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.

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