anhele

See also: anhélé, anhelé, and anhèle

English

Etymology

Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.

Verb

anhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
   • Latimer

     They anhele […] for the fruit of our convocation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anhele in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Helena, Lehane

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Esperanto

Etymology

anheli +‎ -e.

Adverb

anhele

1. breathlessly

   La maljunulo anhele supreniras la ŝtuparon.

   The old man breathlessly climbed the stairway.

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Spanish

Verb

anhele

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of anhelar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of anhelar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of anhelar.