panting

CIDE DICTIONARY

panting, adj. 

 Breathing laboriously or convulsively.  [WordNet 1.5]

panting, n. 

•  The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  Any fabric used to make trousers.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

panting

abrupt, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, anxious, asthmatic, avid, breakneck, breathing, breathless, breathlessness, bursting to, desirous, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, dyspnea, eager, errhine, expiratory, fidgetiness, fidgets, flutter, forward, full of life, headlong, heaving, huffing, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inquietude, inspiratory, keen, labored breathing, lively, nasal, out of breath, palpitation, pitapat, pitter-patter, pneumonic, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, quaking, quaver, quavering, quick, quiver, quivering, raring to, rash, ready, ready and willing, respiratory, restlessness, rhinal, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, short-breathed, short-winded, shortness of breath, shudder, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, spirited, sternutatory, stertorous, sudden, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, twitter, unrest, vital, vivacious, vivid, wheezing, wheezy, winded, zestful

ROGET THESAURUS

panting

Feeling

N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).