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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



... Regiment, were being transferred to lighters. A small tug, throwing up two glittering streaks of spray with its broad bow, was towing three barges through the narrow opening of the lagoon to Corpus Christi, whose docks showed signs of unusual bustle. Short-winded engines were pulling long freight-trains over the tracks that ran along the docks, ringing their bells uninterruptedly. From the camps outside the town the low murmur of drums and long bugle-calls could be heard through the drowsy noon heat. A long gray snake, spotted with the dull glitter ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... of relief. The ambitious young man with one ear open for stellar voices, and the overburdened John Bunyan, and any number of other short-winded pedestrians, could no longer monopolize the upward and onward literature of our own or former times. I ...
— Forty Minutes Late - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith



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



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