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单词 overbreathed
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overbreathedadj.

Forms: see over- prefix and breathed adj.2
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, breathed adj.2
Etymology: < over- prefix + breathed adj.2 (see discussion at that entry). Compare earlier overbreathe v. 1.
literary. Obsolete.
Out of breath, breathless.
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1778 H. Brooke Contending Brothers i. iii. 102 Sir, sir!—O Mr. Spendall—quite over-breathed, quite spent!
a1783 H. Brooke Fox-chase in Wks. Eng. Poets (1810) XVII. 438/2 O'erbreath'd we come where, 'twixt impending hills, Ran the joint current of two gurgling rills.
1892 Ld. Tennyson Foresters iv. i. 121 I am overbreathed, Friar, by my two bouts at quarterstaff.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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