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panting

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpæntɪŋ//

The act of one who pants.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pantpresent participle and gerund of pant

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who pants.

    Now here, now there, moved by the straggling wind, / Came ever and anon a breathlike sound, / Quick as the pantings of the faithful dog […]

Forms

plural
pantings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).