English > breathless: 3 senses > adjective 1Meaning | not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty. |
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Examples | - "breathless at thought of what I had done"
- "breathless from running"
- "followed the match with breathless interest"
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Synonyms | dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal |
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Narrower | asphyxiating | tending to deprive of oxygen |
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blown, pursy, short-winded, winded | breathing laboriously or convulsively |
smothering, suffocating, suffocative | Causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat |
See also | unventilated | not ventilated |
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Opposite | breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic | Passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally |
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Spanish | jadeante |
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Catalan | panteixant |
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Nouns | breathlessness | a dyspneic condition |
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Adverbs | breathlessly | in a breathless manner |
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