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Adjective: dyspneic
Usage: Brit, N. Amer (=dyspoeic)
  1. Not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
    - breathless, dyspnoeic [Brit, Cdn], dyspneal [N. Amer], dyspnoeal [Brit, Cdn], dyspoeic, dyspeic

See also: asphyxiating, blown, choking, pursy [archaic], short-winded, smothering, suffocating, suffocative, unventilated, winded

Antonym: breathing

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