pant for/after sb/sth
— phrasal verb with pant uk/pænt/us/pænt/verb [ I ]
to want someone or something very much:
The newspapers are panting for details of the scandal.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- burn
- fancy
- finger
- hang the cost/expense idiom
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
- think big idiom
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