agasp

English

Etymology

a- +‎ gasp

Adjective

agasp (not comparable)

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

References

• “agasp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.