gasp

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. gaspen, gaispen, to yawn, gasp, Icel. geispa to yawn; akin to Sw. gäspa, Dan. gispe to gasp.

1. To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

She gasps and struggles hard for life.— Robert Lloyd

2. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.— Edmund Spenser

To emit or utter with gasps; — with forth, out, away, etc.

And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.— John Dryden

The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

At the last gasp, at the point of death. Joseph Addison

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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