Synonyms of the word

breathless

• adj. Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
• adj. That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
• adj. Not breathing; apparently dead.
• adj. Having no wind; still, calm or airless.

asphyxiating

• v. present participle of asphyxiate.

blown

• adj. distended, swollen or inflated.
• adj. panting and out of breath.
• adj. (of glass) Formed by blowing.
• adj. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
• adj. (obsolete) stale; worthless.
• adj. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
• adj. (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
• v. past participle of blow.

breathtaking

• adj. stunningly beautiful; amazing.
• adj. Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.

dead

• adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
• adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• adj. Without emotion.
• adj. Stationary; static.
• adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• adj. Unproductive.
• adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
• adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
• adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
• adj. (not comparable) Exact.
• adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
• adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• adv. (degree) Exactly right.
• adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
• adv. As if dead.
• n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
• v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
• v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

dyspneal

• adj. Alternative form of dyspnoeal.

dyspneic

• adj. Afflicted with dyspnea; possessing unhealthy breathing.

dyspnoeal

• adj. Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.

dyspnoeic

• adj. Alternative spelling of dyspneic.

exciting

• v. present participle of excite.
• adj. creating or producing excitement.

gasping

• v. present participle of gasp.
• n. The act by which one gasps.
• adj. (Britain) Very thirsty.

inanimate

• adj. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
• adj. Not being, and never having been alive.
• adj. (grammar) Not animate.
• n. Something that is not alive.
• v. (obsolete) To animate.

panting

• v. present participle of pant.
• n. The act of one who pants.

pulseless

• adj. (medicine) Having no pulse.

pursy

• adj. Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.
• adj. Fat.
• adj. Puckered.
• adj. Purse-proud, vain about one's wealth.

short-winded

• adj. Out of breath, gasping for air; breathing rapidly, or given to becoming short of breath.
• adj. (figuratively) Hasty, breathless; rushed.
• adj. Concise and to the point (opposite of long-winded).

smothering

• v. present participle of smother.
• n. The act by which someone or something is smothered.

suffocating

• v. present participle of suffocate.
• n. suffocation.

suffocative

• adj. Tending or able to choke or stifle.

unventilated

• adj. Not ventilated, lacking ventilation.

winded

• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.
• adj. out of breath.