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breathless

/'brɛθlɪs/

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adjective
not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
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"breathless at thought of what I had done" "breathless from running" "followed the match with breathless interest"

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dyspneal dyspneic dyspnoeal dyspnoeic pursy short-winded smothering suffocating suffocative winded blown asphyxiating

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breathing
adjective
tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
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"a breathless flight"

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breathtaking exciting
adjective
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
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inanimate pulseless dead

Examples of breathless

"breathless at thought of what I had done"
"breathless from running"
"followed the match with breathless interest"
"a breathless flight"