anhele

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See also: anhélé, anhelé, and anhèle

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)

  1. (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; []
      The spelling has been modernized.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From anheli +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

Adverb

anhele

  1. 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

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