"anhélaient" meaning in Français

{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "halenaient"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Formes de verbes en français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ils/elles anhélaient"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Forme de verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en français",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Monsieur des Lourdines, chapitre 1, 1910",
          "text": "« Han !… Han ! » anhélaient en mesure les poitrines."
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "anhéler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe anhéler."
      ],
      "id": "fr-anhélaient-fr-verb-ZJrCL0Y8"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\a.ne.lɛ\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "anhélaient"
}

{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "halenaient"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Formes de verbes en français",
    "français"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ils/elles anhélaient"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Forme de verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Monsieur des Lourdines, chapitre 1, 1910",
          "text": "« Han !… Han ! » anhélaient en mesure les poitrines."
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "anhéler"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe anhéler."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\a.ne.lɛ\\"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "anhélaient"
}