breathless

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  1. adjective Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running.
  2. adjective Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: a breathless audience.
  3. adjective Causing or capable of causing the suspension of regular breathing; tense or exciting: a breathless flight.
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  • Civilian audiences would have watched in breathless, awe-struck silence; but at a military school of aviation it was a different matter. —  High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
  • "That was it She felt breathless, as if they had together been pursuing some slight thing, a butterfly, a bubble, and now, when it was under their hands, they saw that the thing itself was not what mattered. —  Country Neighbors
  • You are just as stupid and just as selfish as if you had built a complicated machine and had turned it over to children to run, refusing them all explanation or guidance Pen paused, breathless, her cheeks scarlet, her eyes glowing. —  Still Jim
  • He leaped into the boat, breathless, after it had pushed off from the shore In time, thank God!" —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
  • She paused, breathless, and then went on excitedly: "I know nothing about the treasure. —  There was a King in Egypt
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  1. from Middle English brethles; from breath + -less.
 

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