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English Dictionary: breathless	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for breathless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
breathless adj 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" Synonym(s): breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal Antonym(s): breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure" Synonym(s): breathless, breathtaking appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" Synonym(s): breathless, inanimate, pulseless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breathless \Breath"less\ (br[ecr]th"l[ecr]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.