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be breathless
adjective
Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
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Since my age group spent these evenings playing tag and hiding under tables laden with tamales and enchiladas, my explanation would be breathless.
"We started at 'Very Pissed Off Hill' and whoever had the worst week would vent on the way up," she recalls, "By the time we reached the top, you would be breathless.
"You'd be breathless.
We will be breathless.
Despite optimal pharmacological therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation, patients with COPD continue to be breathless.
Thus, one would have to say that it is normal for a man of 80 to be breathless after climbing two flights of stairs, while such breathlessness would be distinctly abnormal in an agile child of 10 years of age.
Similar(41)
The tempo is breathless.
He was breathless.
They are breathless.
Whew, this is breathless.
"I was breathless.
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