breathless
气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,喘不过气来,喘不过气来的
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Definitions
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- : without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- : with the breath held, as in suspense, astonishment, fear, or the like: breathless listeners of the mystery story.
- : causing loss of breath, as from excitement, anticipation, or tension: a breathless ride.
- : dead; lifeless.
- : motionless or still, as air without a breeze: a breathless summer day.
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Examples
The page on soup alone contains over 70,000 words from primary sources, cataloged in breathless detail.
The sudden acknowledgement that a person you once loved doesn’t exist anymore can knock the wind out of you, and Dunne captures that breathless free fall beautifully.
It leaves the reader breathless, a deliberate choice by this onetime copy editor, who wants to rush through these excruciating episodes yet convey in lyrical fashion what he feels.
You might think that Beijing would be desperate to get a break from this breathless aggression.
Although he and Bonet divorced in 1993, social media erupted with breathless praise for this glorious vision of a blended family and wild speculation about the magic of Bonet.
Suddenly, you are crying, breathless, raging, and on quieter days just going through the motions.
Whether it's breathless coverage of the New Black Panthers, or reports of vote buying in Mississippi, recent examples abound.
At his shows, I remember there being a hushed, breathless anticipation as we waited to see which song Smith would play next.
The community in which you were raised does not gather around the television set every four years for a solid, breathless month.
After a breathless waiting period in which the infected were quarantined, none of the six fell ill.
Again he stopped, but I made no comment, only waited with interest till he went on.