Dictionary Entry
gasp
gasp is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
- 2intransitive verb
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
- 3transitive verb
To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.
- 4noun
The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
- 5noun
a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
"she gave a gasp and fainted"
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- 6verb
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
"The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
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