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English
Etymology
Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.
Pronunciation
Verb
anhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be breathlessly anxious or eager for; to pant.
1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, , volume I, London: James Duncan, , published 1824, →OCLC, page 49:All men know that we be here gathered, and with most fervent desire, they anheale, breathe, and gape for the fruit of our convocation; as our acts shall be, so they shall name us; […]
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
From anheli + -e.
Pronunciation
Adverb
anhele
- breathlessly
La maljunulo anhele supreniras la ŝtuparon.- The old man breathlessly climbed the stairway.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈnele/
- Rhymes: -ele
- Syllabification: an‧he‧le
Verb
anhele
- inflection of anhelar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative