Definitions for gasp

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Spelling: [gasp, gahsp]

IPA: /gæsp, gɑsp/

Gasp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in gasp (agps).

Definitions for gasp

noun

1. a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
2. a convulsive effort to breathe.
3. a short, convulsive utterance:

Idioms

1. last gasp, the point of death; dying:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter with gasps (often followed by out, forth, away, etc.):
2. to breathe or emit with gasps (often followed by away).

verb (used without object)

1. to catch one's breath.
2. to struggle for breath with the mouth open; breathe convulsively.
3. to long with breathless eagerness; desire; crave (usually followed by for or after).

Origin of gasp

1350-1400; Middle English gaspen, probably Old English *gāspen, equivalent to Old Norse geispa; akin to gape

Examples for gasp

When she had finished, something like a gasp went through the room.

I could only just gasp along the way you do in a dream when there's a ghost gaining on you.

The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!

Parkes managed to gasp through the choking, “Is there something wrong with the money?”

And in a big departure from established royal protocol, Prince George might even get a—gasp—present to open on Christmas Day.

To be clear, I was not treading anywhere near the even more incomprehensible realm of (gasp) relationship definition.

I am lucky on Secret Six to have an editor, Mark Doyle, who agrees, we want people to gasp out loud.

Then he disappeared with a suddenness that made the colonel and Dick gasp.

Her gasp of astonishment was lost in the chorus of congratulatory cries.

Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his toils.