单词 | short-winded |
释义 | short-windedadj. 1. Short of breath; suffering from or liable to difficulty of breathing; that soon becomes out of breath with any exertion. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [adjective] > having breath of specific kind well-breatheda1425 windedc1440 short-windeda1500 strong-breathed1626 blurting1844 metamorphic1875 eupnoic1884 metamorphosic1890 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 winded1883 a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xv. 245 And whan thei saugh the saisnes well chased and short wynded, thei lete renne at hem. 1600 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 852 Captaine Cotton and my selfe swolne and short winded. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 81 Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 101 Short-winded persons are very often corpulent. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge li. 234 The short-winded locksmith had no chance against a man of Sim's youth and spare figure. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 166 I was wretchedly weak and short-winded, only being able to walk a few yards at a time. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. i. 3 Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short winded accents of new broiles To be commencte in stronds a far remote. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. viii. 11 Their shortwinded wishes. 1688 J. Bunyan Heavenly Foot-man (1886) 165 They went to the work at first pretty willingly, but they were very short-winded, they were quickly out of breath, and in their hearts they turned back again into Egypt. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 36 His [sc. Debussy's] melodies may be a little short-winded. 1976 Gramophone May 1772/3 The first movements, if short-winded for Bach, have an easy fluency. Derivatives short-ˈwindedness n. a state or condition of being short-winded, dyspnœa; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath straitness1398 straitheada1400 pursivenessc1450 pursiness?c1475 shortwindiness1545 shortness of breath1577 angustness1598 angustity1599 brevity1600 breathlessness1612 short-windedness1614 dyspnoea1681 tightness1785 puffiness1813 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] shorthead1340 briefnessa1400 brevity1542 momentaniness1635 momentariness1648 shortlivedness1817 momentaneity1921 short-windedness1934 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 303 Balme taken fasting..is very good against short-windednesse. 1753 N. Torriano Non-naturals 52 It begets..pulmonary Humours, (especially Short-windedness,) and Death. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 102 His [sc. Stravinsky's] melodic style has always been marked by extreme shortwindedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.a1500 |
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