Usually means: Unable to catch one's breath.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word breathless:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. breathless: Merriam-Webster
  2. breathless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breathless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breathless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breathless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breathless, breathless: Wordnik
  7. breathless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. breathless: Wiktionary
  9. breathless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. breathless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. breathless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. breathless: Dictionary.com
  13. breathless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Breathless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. breathless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. breathless: Rhymezone
  18. breathless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. breathless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. breathless: FreeDictionary.org
  21. breathless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. breathless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. breathless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Breathless (disambiguation), breathless: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breathless: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. breathless: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. breathless: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breathless: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breathless: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
adjective:  That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
adjective:  Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
adjective:  Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
adjective:  Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.

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