v.
- breathe with short, quick breaths, typically from exertion.
▸long for or to do something.
- literary (of the heart or chest) throb violently from strong emotions.
n.
a short, quick breath.
Derivative
- panting adj.
- pantingly adv.
Etymology
ME: rel. to OFr. pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’, based on Gk phantasioun ‘cause to imagine’, from phantasia (see fantasy).