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View definitions for gasping

gasping

adjective as in breathing

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adjective as in winded

noun as in panting

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Example Sentences

“It hits your chest and you’re gasping for air,” she said.

While Jimmy sinks in his grief, Alice keeps him afloat by becoming a parentified child, even though she is gasping for air too.

From Salon

Instead of having gill covers like most other fish, moral eels breathe by opening and closing their mouths, appearing as if they’re gasping for breath.

That weekend premiere was shared communion, the audience gasping as one as the Batwing shot upward to fill the Batlight of the moon.

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Before the operation, reading in bed would leave her gasping for breath.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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