agasp
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]agasp (not comparable)
- (literary) In a state of gasping.
- 2010, Davide Panagia, The Political Life of Sensation, →ISBN, page 104:
- 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.
References
[edit]- “agasp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.