0 not able to breathe easily: --
That one kiss had left her breathless with excitement.
1 breathing too fast, and therefore unable to get enough air into your lungs to be comfortable: --
She was breathless with excitement.
I am almost breathless over what has happened.
I am afraid he had a rather breathless beginning to his speech.
The breathy playing emphasises the 'musical' quality of the flute, unlike the breathless playing, which foregrounds the material requirements of flute playing: the indispensable act of breathing.
Eirola, therefore, seems to accept being breathy amplified, but not being breathless amplified.
Once patients with cancer become intractably breathless they usually have a relatively short time to live, becoming breathless at rest over a shorter period of time.
One cancer patient in the event did not have a coresidential carer and another was too breathless to be interviewed.
The breathless inadequacy model of bourgeois femininity has also been questioned in studies of intrepid emigrants, formidable travellers and driven philanthropists.
I find it very distressing when you come to see someone who is breathless.
