short-breathedadj.
/ˌʃɔːtˈbrɛθt/ a. Short of breath; suffering from difficulty of breathing, dyspnœic.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > of breath: short > affected with
windlessa1400
breathlessa1425
short-breathed1470
andless1487
short-windeda1500
short-ended1595
breathed1599
outbreathed1600
strait-winded1601
anhelous1617
anheled1656
anhelant1657
suspirious1657
anhelose1661
blown1674
short-lunged1687
unbreathed1692
puffy1799
puffed1813
scant-of-wind1823
pumped-out1854
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1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur viii. xxxix. 333 Sir Lamorak was so sore brysed and shorte brethed that he tracyd and trauercyd somwhat abak.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta (1650) vi. 100 It is very profitable for such as be asthmaticke or short-breathed.
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery ix. 83 The horse..turns short-breathed with the least exercise.
1805 J. Whitaker in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 551 The air of London..is so loaded with sulphur..as to be almost pestilential to a short-breathed man.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. iii. 43 The deuce and all! stammered out my secretary, short-breathed with sudden admiration.
1911 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 306/2 Being short-breathed and unable to go up even a gentle hill without panting and puffing.
b. figurative. (Cf. short-winded adj.)
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1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 295 Even a long-winded Abuse is more consolatory to an Author's feelings than a short-breathed, asthma-lunged Panegyric.
1845 E. B. Barrett Let. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 255 One should not be grateful for kindness only while it lasts: that would be short-breathed gratitude.
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