Advanced Vocabulary - Describing or Relating to Breathing

Describing or Relating to Breathing 

breathless adjective

breathing very fast and hard, for example after exercising.

 

bronchial adjective

medical involving or related to your bronchial tubes.

chesty adjective

British informal suffering from or caused by an infection in the lungs.

choke noun

the action or sound of choking.

deep adjective

breathing a lot of air into or out of your body.

deeply adverb

if you breathe or sigh deeply, you breathe a lot of air into or out of your body.

heavily adverb

if you breathe heavily, you breathe slowly and loudly.

indrawn adjective

an indrawn breath is one that is suddenly breathed in.

laboured adjective

if someone’s breathing is laboured, they breathe with difficulty, for example because they are ill or extremely tired from physical activity.

puffed adjective

breathing very quickly because you have been running, jumping etc.

pulmonary adjective

medical relating to your lungs.

respiratory adjective

biology relating to the process of breathing air in and out.

shallow adjective

taking in only a little air.

sharp adjective

a sharp breath is taken suddenly, often because you are surprised.

winded adjective

unable to breathe because you have been running or have been hit in the stomach.

alveolar adjective 

breathlessly adverb 

breathlessness noun 

shallowly adverb 

shallowness noun 

fighting struggling for breath

almost unable to breathe.

out of breath

breathing fast and with difficulty, for example because you have been running.

short of breath

finding it difficult to breathe.

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