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winded
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From Wind , moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound), R. Winded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding .] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
short of breath v (en-past of: wind )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Climbing the hill left him winded . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I was feeling winded , as if I had been shot. ▪ She lay at the bottom, winded and in pain. ▪ When Lucie put Gabriel down, he was blowing like a winded horse. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown , gasping , out of breath(p) , panting , pursy , short-winded ]
Usage examples of winded.
But they went on merrily, albeit their road winded so much, that the Sage told them, when evening was, that for their diligence they had but come a few short miles as the crow flies.
Winded but triumphant, he let a bath servant assist him into his tub while Alec stationed himself on a nearby bench.
By the time Crug took over from the exhausted Droog, the young animal was visibly winded.
I asked a big winded lady carrying three rackets if Jeanie Geis was on the courts, and between pantings, she pointed to a game of mixed doubles and told me she was the girl on the far court.
Kinaveral-heavy, despite which Khat arrived at the Trade Bar barely winded.
Grant moved out into the light, glanced again at the winded officer, the man staring at him with wide wounded eyes.
She smashed and ripped and tore, and all the while the dog howled and howled and occasionally barked when Mumsy got winded and had to rest.
Now, shuddering at his folly and in winded exhaustion, he stared at the raw end of his right arm and gathered his will, letting resolve grow slowly cold and hard within him.
While his companions drew swords or readied lances or uncased darts, Mai unslung his horn and winded the signal upon which he and his lieutenants had agreed.
Sometimes, when ascending hills, when the winded horse breathed hard from his nostrils, and heaved his flanks, the captain, left to more freedom of thought, reflected upon the prodigious genius of Aramis, a genius of astucity and intrigue, such as the Fronde and the civil war had produced but two.
But then his companions slowed the pace of their flight, as the black horses grew winded.
They soon saw the lights of Camino Viejo ahead of them, and by now the winded pony was breathing naturally and the dry night winds had blown most of that sweat away.
Winded, Erin sank into the snow as Trav continued to pick up balls from the ground and throw them with the re-lenfless force of a pitching machine.
Beldrune sniggered as he overtook his winded colleague, urging it on with a small, feather-plumed whip, his splendid boots outthrust like tusks on either side of his mule.
The stableboys drew lots and pulled off their tunics for wrestling, until they were sweaty and winded from their efforts.