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Broken-winded   Listen
adjective
Broken-winded  adj.  (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Broken-winded" Quotes from Famous Books



... he made the circuit of the Rotunda, which serves as the market for this quarter and is the finest ornament of Aptiekarski-Pereoulok. He made the circuit without knowing it, without stopping for anything, without seeing or understanding anything. As a broken-winded horse makes its way in the treadmill, so he walked around with the thought that he also was lost in a treadmill that led him nowhere. Rouletabille ...
— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux



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