Definitions for gasps

• Definition
• Anagrams (41)

gasps gasp

Spelling: [gasp, gahsp]

IPA: /gæsp, gɑsp/

Gasps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in gasps (agpss).

Definitions for gasps

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 gasps

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

Examples for gasps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.