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broken-winded en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (archaic, of horses) Suffering from a shortness of breath or similar respiratory problem.
    • My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace. 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

Forms

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most broken-winded Degree=Sup lexicographic
more broken-winded Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Coordinates

short-winded