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gasping en · ADJ
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(UK, not-comparable, slang) Very thirsty, especially for tea
Any chance of a cup of tea? I'm gasping.
2011, Kate Ellis, The Armada Boy: Number 2 in series, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
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gaspingly · gaspingness
gasping en · NOUN
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The act by which one gasps.
sundry violent gaspings and strainings
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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gasping disease
gasping en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gasp