To breathe hard or quickly; gasp with open mouth and heaving breast, as after exertion; gasp with excited eagerness.To throb or heave with violence or rapidity, as the heart or the breast after exertion or emotion.To bulge alternately in and out, as the skin of iron ships when the plating is structurally very weak.To languish; pine.To long with breathless eagerness; desire greatly or with agitation: with for or after.Synonyms To puff, blow.To yearn, sigh, hunger, thirst.To breathe (out) in a labored manner; gasp (out) with a spasmodic effort.To long for; desire with eagerness and agitation.n. A quick, short effort of breathing; a gasp.n. A throb, as of the heart.n. A public fountain or well in a town or village.