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Webster 1913 Edition


Agasp

A-gasp′

,
adv.
&
Adj.
[.
a-
+
gasp
.]
In a state of gasping.
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


agasp

agasp

English

Adjective

agasp (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) In a state of gasping.
    • 2010, Davide Panagia, The Political Life of Sensation, ISBN 0822390817, 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.