English > dyspneal: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty. |
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| Synonyms | breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, 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 | dyspnea | difficult or labored respiration |
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