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# panting

«panting» in Mova's school dictionary: **breathing fast and loudly with your mouth open, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (pant, pants, panted, panting); also adjective (a panting dog)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Panting means breathing fast and loudly with your mouth open, usually after running or because you are hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#m1)

2) Wanting something very much (old, in "panting for"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories to show someone ran hard or is tired: "She arrived panting." In science: dogs pant to cool down because they cannot sweat much. In PE: after a race you may be panting.

### examples

- The dog was panting after the long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x1)
- I was panting after running up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x2)
- He ran in, panting, and shouted the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x3)
- Dogs pant to cool themselves down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x4)
- The runners crossed the line, panting hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x5)
- Give a panting dog water and shade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x6)
- She stopped, panting, at the top of the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x7)
- Panting for breath, she entered their room, and flung herself down on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/#x8)

### note

"Panting" is the -ing form of "pant". Do not confuse with "pants" (in the UK underwear, in the USA trousers). Safety: a dog panting very heavily on a hot day may be too hot.

### In the corpora

- [Dogs hardly sweat, so they cool down by panting, which dries their wet tongue and mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «panting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.