breathless

breath·less  (brthls)

adj.

1. Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running.

2. Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: a breathless audience.

3. Causing or capable of causing the suspension of regular breathing; tense or exciting: a breathless flight.

4.

a. Not breathing; without breath.

b. Dead.

5. Having no air or breeze; still: a breathless summer day.

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breathless·ly adv.

breathless·ness n.

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breathless

Adjective

1. out of breath; gasping, etc.

2. holding one's breath or having it taken away by excitement, etc.

3. (esp. of the atmosphere) motionless and stifling

breathlessness n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	breathless - 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" dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic unventilated - not ventilated; "stuffy unventilated rooms" breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic - passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone"
	2.	breathless - tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure" breathtaking exciting - creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip"
	3.	breathless - appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" pulseless, inanimate dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

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breathless

adjective 1. out of breath, winded, exhausted, panting, gasping, choking, gulping, wheezing, out of whack (informal) short-winded

adjective 2. excited, anxious, curious, eager, enthusiastic, impatient, agog, on tenterhooks, in suspense

Translations

breathless [ˈbrɛθlɪs] adj → sin aliento, jadeante;

(with excitement) → pasmado

breathless [ˈbrɛθlɪs] breath adj → essoufflé(e) → haletant(e) → oppressé(e);

breathless with excitement → le souffle coupé par l'émotion

breathless [ˈbrɛθlɪs] adj → atemlos, außer Atem;

(Med) → an Atemnot leidend;

I was breathless with excitement → die Aufregung verschlug mir den Atem

breathless [ˈbrɛθlɪs] adj → senza fiato;

(with excitement) → con il fiato sospeso