Synonyms:
breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
breathless, breathtaking
Meaning: tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"
Usage examples
The stillness in the house was breathless.
Samuel listened in breathless excitement to this discussion.
But shortly afterwards she hurried back breathless to her place.
"Did Nancy Ellen just leave your house?" came a breathless query.
"You owe me two francs from last night," was his breathless greeting.
Alice Wilson's so bad!" She could say no more, for her breathless agitation.
But at length, breathless and exhausted, he reached her side, and gasped out:
Their greetings were conventional, but she looked at him, breathless, wondering, eager.
"Then I shall go out that way," said Mr. Dunbar, who was almost breathless in his haste.
Also his livid lips are parted at last, as if he were breathless with running. Yet he is not.