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out of breath en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • /-ˌɒv-/ (New-Zealand)
  • /-ˌəv-/ (India)
  • /-ˌɒv-/ (Canada, standard)
  • /aʊ̯t əv bɹeθ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /-ˌɐv-/ (Australia)
  • /-ˌɒv-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /aʊ̯t əv bɹɛθ/ (General-American)
  • /aʊ̯t əv bɹɛθ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /aʊ̯t əv bɹɛθ/ (Canada)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /-ˌʌv-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /-ˌɑv-/ (Canada, dialectal)
  • /-ˌɔv-/ (Scotland)
  • /æɔ̯t əv bɹeθ/ (Australia)
  • /æʊ̯t əv bɹeθ/ (New-Zealand)
  • -ŭv′-
  • /ʌʊ̯t əv bɹɛθ/ (Scotland)
  • -ŏv′-
  • /-ˌɔv-/ (India)
  • /-ˌɐv-/ (New-Zealand)
  • /əwʈ ov bɾɛ(ː)t̪/ (India)
  • /-ˌʌv-/ (General-American)
  • out əv brĕth
  • /-ˌɔv-/ (Australia)
  • /-ˌɔv-/ (General-American) without the cot–caught merger
  • /-ˌɑv-/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
  • /ɑwʈ ov bɾɛ(ː)t̪/ (India)
  • /-ˌʌv-/ (Canada)
  • /ʌʊ̯t ʌv bɹɛθ/ (Scotland)
  • /-ˌʌv-/ (Scotland)

Meanings

  1. Breathing with difficulty, in particular due to physical activity.
    • He was always scared that he wouldn't return. Aaroo, Aaroo” howled Dunchest until he was out of breath and then he began to whimper realizing Cutlass was not coming back until the mission was over. 2018, Ravi Struck, Josh Weisman, Pirates of the Seven Seas: Book One: Gromund's Tales, BookBaby, →ISBN:
    • We were all out of breath when we got to the summit.
    • But before al of them were assembled to begin their sports, there came a fellow, who being out of breath (or seeming so to be for haste) with humble hastines told Basilius, that his Mistres, the Lady Cecropia, had sent him to excuse the mischance of her beastes ranging in that dãgerous sort, being happened by the folly of the keeper; […] c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
    • Cam. [i.e., Canidus.] Our Fortune on the Sea is out of breath, And ſinkes moſt lamentably. Had our Generall Bin what he knew himſelfe, it had gone well: Oh his [i.e., he] ha's giuen example for our flight, Moſt groſſely by his owne. Eno[barbus]. I, are you thereabouts? Why then goodnight indeede. c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene x], page 355, column 2:
    • When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session. 2008 December 30, David Joutras, chapter 8, in A Ghost in the World (Brother's Keepers; 1), →ISBN, page 55:
    • Which Soldiers with their continual Shot, killed divers of the Vauntguard led by the Hamiltons, who courageouſly and fiercely aſcending up the Hill, were already out of Breath when the Regent’s Vauntguard joined with them. 1735, James Melville, The Memoirs of Sir James Melvil of Halhill […], page 182:

Synonyms

out of wind

Translations (40)

pt ofegante (breathing with difficulty) · pl zadyszany (breathing with difficulty) · pt esbaforido (breathing with difficulty) · sk udýchaný (breathing with difficulty) · fr essoufflé (breathing with difficulty) · pl zasapany (breathing with difficulty) · es sin aliento (breathing with difficulty) · fr hors d'haleine (breathing with difficulty) · eo anhela (breathing with difficulty) · io anhela (breathing with difficulty) · fr à bout de souffle (breathing with difficulty) · hu kifulladt (breathing with difficulty) · ga rite as anáil (breathing with difficulty) · no andpusten (breathing with difficulty) · ru пыхтя́щий (breathing with difficulty) · ro cu respirația tăiată (breathing with difficulty) · mi tūngāngā (breathing with difficulty) · mi pukā (breathing with difficulty) · ca sense alè (breathing with difficulty) · pl zdyszany (breathing with difficulty) · nl buiten adem (breathing with difficulty) · pl bez tchu (breathing with difficulty) · cmn 氣喘吁吁 (breathing with difficulty) · sv andfådd (breathing with difficulty) · ja 息を切らして (breathing with difficulty) · el λαχανιασμένος (breathing with difficulty) · it senza fiato (breathing with difficulty) · fi hengästynyt (breathing with difficulty) · cs zadýchaný (breathing with difficulty) · ar لَاهِث (breathing with difficulty) · sv med andan i halsen (breathing with difficulty) · es sin hálito (breathing with difficulty) · cs udýchaný (breathing with difficulty) · ru запы́хавшийся (breathing with difficulty) · is móður (breathing with difficulty) · af asemloos (breathing with difficulty) · it trafelato (breathing with difficulty) · mi hēmanawa (breathing with difficulty) · de außer Atem (breathing with difficulty) · cmn 喘不過氣 /喘不过气 (breathing with difficulty)