Adjective: short-winded 'short'win-did
- Breathing laboriously or convulsively
"The short-winded little man departed";
- blown, pursy [archaic], winded
- Breathing heavily (as after exertion)
"She arrived at the top of the stairs, short-winded from the climb";
- out of breath, breathless, puffed [Brit], gasping
See also: breathless, dyspneal [N. Amer], dyspneic, dyspnoeal [Brit, Cdn], dyspnoeic