Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pant
Participle: panted
Gerund: panting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pant |
| you | pant |
| he;she;it | pants |
| we | pant |
| you | pant |
| they | pant |
Perfect
| I | have panted |
| you | have panted |
| he;she;it | has panted |
| we | have panted |
| you | have panted |
| they | have panted |
Past
| I | panted |
| you | panted |
| he;she;it | panted |
| we | panted |
| you | panted |
| they | panted |
Pluperfect
| I | had panted |
| you | had panted |
| he;she;it | had panted |
| we | had panted |
| you | had panted |
| they | had panted |
Future
| I | will pant |
| you | will pant |
| he;she;it | will pant |
| we | will pant |
| you | will pant |
| they | will pant |
Future Perfect
| I | will have panted |
| you | will have panted |
| he;she;it | will have panted |
| we | will have panted |
| you | will have panted |
| they | will have panted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pant |
| you | pant |
| he;she;it | pant |
| we | pant |
| you | pant |
| they | pant |
Perfect
| I | have panted |
| you | have panted |
| he;she;it | have panted |
| we | have panted |
| you | have panted |
| they | have panted |
Imperfect
| I | panted |
| you | panted |
| he;she;it | panted |
| we | panted |
| you | panted |
| they | panted |
Pluperfect
| I | had panted |
| you | had panted |
| he;she;it | had panted |
| we | had panted |
| you | had panted |
| they | had panted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pant |
| you | would pant |
| he;she;it | would pant |
| we | would pant |
| you | would pant |
| they | would pant |
Perfect
| I | would have panted |
| you | would have panted |
| he;she;it | would have panted |
| we | would have panted |
| you | would have panted |
| they | would have panted |
Imperative
| you | pant |
| we | Let's pant |
| you | pant |
Verbs conjugated like 'pant'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pant'
ant,
cant,
jant,
lant,
pact,
paint,
pan,
pane,
pané,
pang,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1440, perhaps a shortening of O.Fr.
pantaisier "to be out of breath" (12c.), probably from V.L.
*pantasiare "be oppressed with a nightmare, struggle for breathing during a nightmare," lit. "to have visions," from Gk.
phantasioun "have or form images, subject to hallucinations," from
phantasia "appearance, image, fantasy" (see phantasm). The noun is attested from c.1500.
2. From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.
3. 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, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”). See: Middle English '
panten', Old French '
pantoisier', French '
panteler'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] when we found ourselves fused, as it were, into a dense conglomeration of passengers and passengers ’ friends and passengers ’ luggage, all jumbled together on the deck of a small steamboat, and panting and snorting off to the packet, which had worked out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the back seat, his elbows encountering her bonnet, and both her feet being jammed into his hat, which flies off in the concussion. After a few moments the “ slough ” is passed, and the horses stop, panting; — the senator finds his hat, the woman straightens her bonnet and hushes her child, and they brace themselves for what is yet to come.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] assumption of superiority, quite monstrous to behold. In the coarse familiarity of their approach, and the effrontery of their inquisitiveness (which they are in great haste to assert, as if they panted to revenge themselves upon the decent old restraints of home ), they surpass any native specimens that came within my range of observation: and I often grew so patriotic when I saw and heard them, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] away, no one would have had occasion, as I fancied, for the least surprise. But it stopped short of us in a very business-like manner when we reached the canal: and, before we left the wharf, went panting up this hill again, with the passengers who had waited our arrival for the means of traversing the road by which we had come.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted,—the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Ah, what said those eyes, that spoke so much of heaven ! Earth was past,—and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)