(a.) 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.
(a.) Dead; as, a breathless body.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(2) A breathless Sturridge was still trying to digest his part in the game when he paid tribute to Hodgson, saying: “I’m grateful to the gaffer for allowing me to score and it’s a beautiful feeling to represent your country in the rivalry against another great country.
(3) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(4) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(5) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(6) A breathless, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it beginning had three goals inside the first 10 minutes.
(7) Nineteen patients with advanced disease and variable hypoxaemia undertook exercise until they indicated severe breathlessness on a 100 mm visual analogue scale.
(8) Radiotherapy may have a palliative effect for breathlessness in patients with central airways obstruction due to tumour.
(9) Cough with or without expectoration (98%) and fever (95%) were the commonest symptoms followed by breathlessness (85%) and chest pain (83%).
(10) Respiratory frequency was determined before and after the aerosol, and exercise tolerance and breathlessness were measured with a 6 min walking test and visual analogue scales.
(11) "I've still got the cough, then quite quickly developed a wheeze in my breathing and breathlessness upon any physical exertion.
(12) It is important to realize that respiratory muscles may be directly affected when assessing thyrotoxic patients with breathlessness, as severe involvement of the respiratory muscles may cause respiratory failure.
(13) Those reporting wheeze or breathlessness, and especially those with both symptoms, were significantly more likely to have bronchial hyperresponsiveness with a low PC20.
(14) Instead, a breathless end-to-end affair closed with the Sky Blues on 65 points and Arsenal 68 with next Sunday’s final games to go.
(15) We concluded that blood gas analysis in occupationally related disability determination is unreliable, in that quality control and instrumentation are variable; that severe hypoxemia is rare in coal workers' pneumoconiosis; and that such hypoxemia is nonspecific and correlates poorly with breathlessness.
(16) There was a decrease in the Likert visual analogue score of breathlessness at peak exercise (8.6 [SD 2.1] vs 4.9 [3.1], p < 0.01).
(17) Psychophysical power functions were similar for leg exertion in the three groups while the growth of breathlessness was lower in group B.
(18) She has a tablet in place of a chest, for displaying photographs, and “She’ll say, for instance,” my guide explains: “‘Do you remember Paris?’” In that echoing space I found myself suddenly breathless.
(19) Enalapril treatment significantly improved functional class, symptom score for breathlessness, and exercise tolerance.
(20) Suppression of ventilation by tasks such as talking may produce breathlessness in normal individuals under conditions when a strong respiratory drive exists, e.g., during exercise, and in patients with severe lung disease.
Windless
Definition:
(a.) Having no wind; calm.
(a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Launches take place in the windless early-morning hours, when mists blanket the sweeping ranchlands.
(2) In the period to 2030, it could provide a flexible back-up for renewables, on windless or cloudy days.
(3) It’s kind of what I’m all about.” Kotsenburg’s jump was the high point of a sunny, windless day at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
(4) Synchronization of the swarming time of males was also favoured by warm windless weather.