0 past simple and past participle of gasp
1 to take a short, quick breath through the mouth, especially because of surprise, pain, or shock:
When they announced that Chris had won first prize, he gasped in astonishment.
He opened the box and gasped to see all the treasure inside.
"How on earth did you do that?," she gasped.
A loud crash from the other room made us gasp and run to the door.
The visiting doctor gasped in horror and hurriedly asked if there weren't a more private place we could talk.
Everybody gasped, because they knew that it could not happen.
Let us remember that, when he did, the nation gasped.
