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asthmatically en · ADV

Etymology

From asthmatic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an asthmatic manner.
   • The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house. 1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery:
   • He came in and stood breathing asthmatically. 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:
   • He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically, glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch. 1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile:

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Translations (2)

pl astmatycznie (in an asthmatic manner) · pt asmaticamente (in an asthmatic manner)