English > breathless: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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