2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breathless \Breath"less\ (br[e^]th"l[e^]s), a.
1. Spent with labor or violent action out of breath.
2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear,
expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding
of the breath; as breathless attention.
But breathless, as we grow when feeling most
--Byron.
3. Dead; as a breathless body.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breathless
adj 1: not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty;
"breathless at thought of what I had done";
"breathless from running"; "followed the match with
breathless interest" [ant: {breathing}]
2: tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a
breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure" [syn: {breathtaking}]
3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible
pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: {inanimate},
{pulseless}]
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