Gasp vs Caught - What's the difference?
gasp | caught |
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
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
(catch)
As a noun gasp
is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing.As an adjective caught is
(cricket) of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.As a verb caught is
(catch).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.