kapkod

• to snatch at sg

• to gasp

• to be short of breath, to pant, to pant for breath

• to panic

• abrupt, desultory, precipitate

• desultorily, hugger-mugger, precipitately

• expedience, expediency, precipitation, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity

• to rush

• there was a run on the novel

• slap-dash

• scratchy

• to snap up

• panic

• duck

• to fling on one's clothes

• he was battling for breath

• to huddle on one's clothes