winded
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈwɪndɪd/
:
sin aliento
- When it was Miguel's turn, he flew down the hall, arriving at my door winded and happy.
So we've got our paddles in the back where I'm winded because I have to run upstairs getting old.
- So we've got our paddles in the back where I'm winded because I have to run upstairs getting old.
- Do that, do that and I'm winded.
Examples
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Even today he gets winded from doing a couple of push ups.
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I'm winded and I'm resting my arms to keep them dainty.
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We stopped there for a red light, both of us a little winded.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm a little winded from walking, so that's good for me.
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Beasley played 43 minutes and was too winded to make a shot down the stretch.
Blog text (9) -
Charlotte, winded, hair dripping wet, watches the numbers tick by overhead.
Fiction book (2000) -
After running for several minutes, I was winded and needed to catch my breath.
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He felt winded after climbing the steep hill and had to sit down for a moment.
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She became winded from the fast-paced exercise class and struggled to regain her breath.
Synonyms
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3.3
Not able to breathe easily after physical effort or strong emotion
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9.9
Breathing with difficulty and feeling short of breath after little effort, often from being overweight
Breathing is difficult and you get out of breath after activity
Being very tired and out of breath after hard exercise
Breathing quickly and loudly because you have little air
Having trouble breathing or feeling short of breath
Having difficulty breathing and feeling short of breath
Having difficulty breathing
Compounds
How Breathless
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Surface Forms
Morphology
winded = wind (transparent) = wind + ed
Formed regularly as the past-participial adjective from the verb 'wind' meaning 'to make breathless'; the meaning is directly derived for learners who know that verb sense.
Etymology
The word winded comes from the word wind meaning 'breath' or moving air, so being winded is like losing your breath — think of the phrase 'the wind was knocked out of him' after a hard run. So, winded means 'out of breath'.