clear one's throat vs pant

clear one's throat

verb
  • Forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expelling air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorous than coughing. 

pant

verb
  • To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. 

  • Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate. 

  • To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc. 

  • To sigh; to flutter; to languish. 

  • To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. 

  • To heave, as the breast. 

noun
  • A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation. 

  • Eager longing. 

  • Of or relating to pants. 

  • Any public drinking fountain. 

  • A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). 

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