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breathlessly

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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.

breathless·ly adv.
breathless·ness n.
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Adv.1.breathlessly - in a breathless manner; "she spoke breathlessly"
Translations
breathlessly [ˈbreθlɪslɪ] ADV
1. (lit) [say, ask] → entrecortadamente, jadeante; [walk, climb] → jadeando, con la respiración entrecortada
2. (fig) [watch, wait] → ansiosamente
breathlessly [ˈbrɛθləsli] adv
[say, ask] → d'une voix haletante, à bout de souffle
[wait, watch] → en retenant son souffle
breathlessly
advatemlos; (from exertion also) → außer Atem
breathlessly [ˈbrɛθlɪslɪ] advsenza fiato
breathlessly [ˈbrɛθlɪslɪ] advsenza fiato


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"Madam," I said, breathlessly springing forward, as a heavenly being was coldly tearing the hook from the gills of the unlucky trout, "though I am a stranger, will you do me a great favour?
At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station.
She talked breathlessly of the floor and the heat and the supper.
 
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