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Forms

1.Eager longing.
- Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
2.A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
3.A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.
4.Of or relating to pants.

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.
- Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
- There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
2.To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
- Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her.
3.Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
4.To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

Uncommon· #2612

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.