| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | breath·less |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br th l s |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running. 2. Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: a breathless audience. 3. Causing or capable of causing the suspension of regular breathing; tense or exciting: a breathless flight. 4a. Not breathing; without breath. b. Dead. 5. Having no air or breeze; still: a breathless summer day. | | OTHER FORMS: | breathless·ly —ADVERB
breathless·ness —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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