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breathless |
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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