Gasp vs Angry - What's the difference?
gasp | angry |
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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As a noun gasp
is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing.As an adjective angry is
displaying or feeling anger.gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
References
Anagrams
* *angry
English
Adjective
(er)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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