anhele
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)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
- Latimer
- They anhele […] for the fruit of our convocation.
- Latimer
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Esperanto
Adverb
anhele
- breathlessly
- La maljunulo anhele supreniras la ŝtuparon.
- The old man breathlessly climbed the stairway.
Spanish
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