GASP
\ɡˈasp], \ɡˈasp], \ɡ_ˈa_s_p]\
Definitions of GASP
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
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To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
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The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
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To emit or utter with gasps; - with forth, out, away, etc.
By Oddity Software
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To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
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To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
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The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
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To emit or utter with gasps; - with forth, out, away, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A quick painful effort to catch the breath.
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To catch the breath with difficulty.
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To breathe out in quick, painful breaths; with away.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To gape in order to catch breath: to breathe laboriously or convulsively.
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The act of opening the mouth to catch the breath: a painful catching of the breath.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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