Agasp

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    In a state of gasping. literary, not-comparable

    "This dynamic of life and death is extended by the fact that Caravaggio often painted the same agasp expression in many of his living faces."

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"This dynamic of life and death is extended by the fact that Caravaggio often painted the same agasp expression in many of his living faces."

Etymology

From a- + gasp.

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