[てにあせをにぎる, teniasewonigiru] (exp, v5r) to sit on the edge of one's seat; to be in breathless suspense [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Breathless \Breath"less\ (br[e^]th"l[e^]s), a.
1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
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2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear,
expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding
of the breath; as, breathless attention.
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But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
--Byron.
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3. Dead; as, a breathless body.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
breathless
adj 1: not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty;
"breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless
from running"; "followed the match with breathless
interest" [syn: {breathless}, {dyspneic}, {dyspnoeic},
{dyspneal}, {dyspnoeal}] [ant: {breathing}, {eupneic},
{eupnoeic}]
2: tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a
breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure" [syn:
{breathless}, {breathtaking}]
3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse;
"an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: {breathless},
{inanimate}, {pulseless}]
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