gasped
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of gasp.
The whole audience gasped as the magician vanished in a flash of smoke.
By the time the medics reached him, he had gasped weakly for several minutes.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: the plain past (the crowd gasped) and the participle after have (she had gasped for air). Most uses take no object, so a passive is rare. The speech meaning changes that, letting gasped carry the words themselves. It works as a reporting verb in dialogue, or with out: the warning was gasped out between breaths.
"Water," he gasped, collapsing against the door.
Her name was gasped out between sobs.
gasped is a form of gasp
gasp, verb: To draw in breath suddenly, as if from a shock or startle. Full entry
- Spelling
- gasp → gasped: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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