gasp.

/gasp, gahsp/US // gæsp, gɑsp //UK // (ɡɑːsp) //

喘息,喘气,喘息声,气喘吁吁

Definitions

1.
- ›a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- ›a convulsive effort to breathe.
- ›a short, convulsive utterance: the words came out in gasps.

1.
- ›to catch one's breath.
- ›to struggle for breath with the mouth open; breathe convulsively.
- ›to long with breathless eagerness; desire; crave.

1.
- ›to utter with gasps: She gasped out the words.
- ›to breathe or emit with gasps.

nounsharply drawn breath

Forms: gasped, gasping, gasps

Synonyms

Enjoying the rest of a remote summerThe prospect of returning to cubicle life means employees are seizing their last gasps of life outside the office.
In the hours to months after the impact, we share this behemoth’s last steps, its final gasps.
We haven’t been really given any sense of reality, and so that nostalgia becomes a reason to do these things… They see this as like the last gasp of a troll.
We’re nearing the frustratingly slow, but sure, dying gasp of Covid-19.
Everything was silent except for the rhythmic friction of skis on snow and our gasps of exhaustion.
And in a big departure from established royal protocol, Prince George might even get a—gasp—present to open on Christmas Day.
The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!
There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.
I am lucky on Secret Six to have an editor, Mark Doyle, who agrees, we want people to gasp out loud.
To be clear, I was not treading anywhere near the even more incomprehensible realm of (gasp) relationship definition.
With a suffocating , she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

/gasp, gahsp/US // gæsp, gɑsp //UK // (ɡɑːsp) //

喘息,喘气,喘息声,气喘吁吁

1.
- ›a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- ›a convulsive effort to breathe.
- ›a short, convulsive utterance: the words came out in gasps.

1.
- ›to catch one's breath.
- ›to struggle for breath with the mouth open; breathe convulsively.
- ›to long with breathless eagerness; desire; crave.

1.
- ›to utter with gasps: She gasped out the words.
- ›to breathe or emit with gasps.

nounsharply drawn breath

Forms: gasped, gasping, gasps

Synonyms

Enjoying the rest of a remote summerThe prospect of returning to cubicle life means employees are seizing their last gasps of life outside the office.
In the hours to months after the impact, we share this behemoth’s last steps, its final gasps.
We haven’t been really given any sense of reality, and so that nostalgia becomes a reason to do these things… They see this as like the last gasp of a troll.
We’re nearing the frustratingly slow, but sure, dying gasp of Covid-19.
Everything was silent except for the rhythmic friction of skis on snow and our gasps of exhaustion.
And in a big departure from established royal protocol, Prince George might even get a—gasp—present to open on Christmas Day.
The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!
There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.
I am lucky on Secret Six to have an editor, Mark Doyle, who agrees, we want people to gasp out loud.
To be clear, I was not treading anywhere near the even more incomprehensible realm of (gasp) relationship definition.
With a suffocating , she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.