See Also: gasp(medicine)
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gasp(1) (iou)



gasp noun. [g¨»:sp] L16.
[from the verb.]
A convulsive catching of the breath from distress, exertion, surprise, etc.
last gasp the final attempt to draw breath before dying (at the last gasp, at one's last gasp, at the point of death; fig. exhausted).