panting; not breathing; tense
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Breathless Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
(a.)
Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention.
Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention.
(a.)
Dead; as, a breathless body.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutDead; as, a breathless body.
breathless
\breath"less\ (br&ebreve;th"l&ebreve;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.
3. dead; as, a breathless body.
Adjective
1. 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) dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal
(antonym) breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic
(similar) asphyxiating
(see-also) unventilated
2. tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"
(synonym) breathtaking
(similar) exciting
3. appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
(synonym) inanimate, pulseless
(similar) dead
Breathless Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Breathless may refer to:
Film and television
- Breathless (1960 film) (À bout de souffle), a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- Breathless (1983 film), a remake of the 1960 film, starring Richard Gere
- Breathless (2009 film), a South Korean film directed by and starring Yang Ik-joon
- "Breathless" (CSI: Miami), an episode
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