short-winded

2 definitions found

short-winded - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Short-winded \Short"-wind`ed\, a.
     Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult
     respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. --May.
     [1913 Webster]

short-winded - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  short-winded
      adj 1: breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown,
             pursy, short-winded, winded]