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Short-winded   /ʃˈɔrtwˈɪndɪd/   Listen
Short-winded

adjective
1.
Breathing laboriously or convulsively.  Synonyms: blown, pursy, winded.






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"Short-winded" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked at the little short-legged and short-winded animal of miscellaneous extraction with an expression of contempt and affection, mingled about half and half. "Worry 'em! If they wanted to sleep, I rather guess he would worry 'em! If barkin' would do their job for 'em, nary a mouse nor rat would board free gratis in my house ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)



Words linked to "Short-winded" :   dyspneic, dyspnoeal, blown, breathless, pursy, dyspnoeic, dyspneal



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