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Definition of breathless



Overview of adj breathless

The adj breathless has 3 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (5) breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal

(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")

2. (1) breathless, breathtaking

(tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure")

3. breathless, inanimate, pulseless

(appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead")