Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having short breath or hurried respiration; dyspnœic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
- adjective Having short life.
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Examples
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There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
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And I listened, and grew fat and short-breathed, and in the long nights, unsleeping, worried that the men of the stranger tribe brought me meat for my wisdom and honour, but laughed at my fatness and undesire for the hunting and fighting.
Chapter 21 2010
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But his short-breathed, clumsily phrased, interpretively blank and often pinched and strained singing makes his Don Jose a tough listen.
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Binchois's songs are his most attractive compositions: typical features include the use of under-3rd cadences, rather short-breathed phrases, triple rhythm the only song in duple time is Seule esgaree, and the apparent repetition of material.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy
Les Miserables 2008
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They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the
Ivanhoe 2004
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When the youngster rolled over on the floor and cried she put both hands under his arms and dragged him into a sitting posture, chattering with short-breathed volubility.
The Mother of Felipe 1999
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For an instant it loomed our way, and I found myself silent, short-breathed, desperately hoping it wouldn't spot us.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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"You hold it, boy …" A sort of greasy, short-breathed excitement got him by the balls when he realized the black kid wasn't going to stop and Tud said, "Hey, now, Billy Lee …" Billy Lee pulled the trigger, and a burst of nine-millimeter slugs went downrange, and the black kid tumbled ass over teakettle into the weeds.
The Empress File Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1991
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England's troubles have not yet endured above half the odd years of those reformers 'task; yet, good God! how short-breathed are men!
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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