Definition of "panting" []

• Present participle of pant. (verb)

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• "In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car."
• "The sunshine was at first dazzling in its brightness, and he paused and rested, for he was panting from the exertion."
• "Because they're not following you in panting desperation for your next morsel of linguistic loveliness, they're following you because they want more followers themselves."