Verb

(ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

* Dryden

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.

* Shelley

There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.

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To long for (something); to be eager for (something).

* Herbert

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

* Bible, Psalms xlii. 1

As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

* Alexander Pope

Who pants for glory finds but short repose.

Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

(Spenser)

To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

* Alexander Pope

The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.