pant

Plural: pants

Noun

the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
Eager longing.
A violent palpitation of the heart.
A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
Of or relating to pants.
Any public drinking fountain.

Verb

Verb Forms: panted, panting, pants

To breathe with short, quick gasps, typically from exertion.
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
utter while panting, as if out of breath
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
To heave, as the breast.
To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Examples

After a challenging Scrabble round, he began to PANT, mentally exhausted.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.
Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Synonyms

gasp, heave, puff, trouser, crave, desire, long, long for, palpitate, pine, pine for, pound, throb

Scrabble Score: 6

pant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

pant: valid Words With Friends Word