pant

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1. pant - Noun

2. pant - Verb

3. Pant - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

To long for; to be eager after.

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

A violent palpitation of the heart.

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Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot. Ani DiFranco

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while. Kate Hudson

Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives. Honoré de Balzac

The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ. John Flavel

Let a certain saving ambition invade our souls so that, impatient of mediocrity, we pant after the highest things and (since, if we will, we can) bend all our efforts to their attainment. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

He who associates with dogs learns to pant. American Proverb

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