: gasping for breath (as after strenuous activity) : breathing very rapidly
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out of breath
1. Having difficulty in breathing
2. Panting from exertion, etc
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Main Entry: ↑breath
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out of breath phrase
breathing fast and with difficulty, for example because you have been running
She was out of breath from climbing the stairs.
Thesaurus: describing or relating to breathinghyponym
Main entry: breath
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gasping for air, typically after exercise
he arrived on the top floor out of breath
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out of ˈbreath idiom
having difficulty breathing after exercise
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We were out of breath after only five minutes.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.