anhele

See also: anhélé, anhelé, and anhèle

English

Etymology

Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ənˈhiːl/, /əˈniːl/
  • Homophone: anneal

Verb

anhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
    • 1536 June 9, Hugh Latimer, Sermon preached before the convocation of the clergy:
      They anheale […] for the fruit of our convocation.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

anheli +‎ -e.

Adverb

anhele

  1. breathlessly
    La maljunulo anhele supreniras la ŝtuparon.
    The old man breathlessly climbed the stairway.

Spanish

Verb

anhele

  1. inflection of anhelar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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