Definition of "gasping" []

• Present participle of gasp. (verb)
• The act by which one gasps. (noun)

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• "Worn and mentally gasping from the experience, I greeted the other minds, and then made my report to the Many."
• "The crickets ceased from their sing-song chant, the wildfowl from their squabbling, and the raven croak broke midmost and died away in gasping silence."
• "And so, in gasping and bitter sweat, these sons of"