gasping

Meaning of gasping

verb
  1. To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
    The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
  2. To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
    We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
  3. To speak in a breathless manner.
    The old man gasped his last few words.
  4. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
    I'm gasping for a cup of tea.

noun

The act by which one gasps.

adjective

Very thirsty

Information about gasping

  • The plural form of gasping is: gaspings.
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Hyphenation of gasping

gasp-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • gasping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

gasping synonyms

Meaning blown:

blown, panting, pursy, winded

Translation of gasping

Anagrams of gasping

gapings, pagings

Words that rhyme with gasping

Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping

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