Thesaurus results for PANTED

panted

verb

past tense of pant

as in gasped

to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty the dog was panting heavily after his breakneck run across the field

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Recent Examples of panted Pet owners spoke reassuringly to their dogs, who panted and pawed their owners, and to their mewing cats. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026 On one of the machines a Cluely employee panted and huffed in the dark. — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

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gasped

Verb

During the film, audience members both laughed and gasped in horror as the events of OpenAI’s founding and 2023 unraveling were brought to screen.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Same lethal drug, different outcomes After the pentobarbital was administered Wednesday night, Howard took a couple of breaths and gasped, the AP reported, before making snoring sounds that grew quiet within 30 seconds.

— Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026