Skip to main content

winded

/win-did/US // ˈwɪn dɪd //UK // (ˈwɪndɪd) //

缠绕的,缠绕着的,缠绕在一起的,缠绕式的

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : out of breath.
    • : having wind or breath of a specified kind: short-winded; broken-winded.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • She felt winded after short distances, and although a family of runners raised her, she worried she didn’t possess the talent or passion to pursue the sport.

  • By definition, filibusters are stalling tactics that rely on long-winded speeches and tedious procedural delays.

  • He can’t walk around the house without becoming winded and can’t go even a moment without being connected to supplemental oxygen.

  • What Thomas remembers is how brief the meeting was, especially in comparison to the long-winded team meetings he experienced in Detroit.

  • We start with college football’s national championship game, in which Alabama dominated a slightly winded Ohio State.

  • His many publications and his emails to me are long-winded, occasionally exaggerated, and sometimes hard to follow.

  • None looked jumpy to me; in fact the pedicab cyclists beside our carriage looked more winded and annoyed.

  • What do you call a long-winded member of Congress whose opinions infuriate you?

  • That quote may expose Obama as long-winded, but we knew that.

  • The prince got winded and red-faced in a hurry when he got on a treadmill to promote an Everest climb by charity he supports.

  • There was no more talking after that, but even so the three outlanders grew more and more winded and the people gained on them.

  • Indoors and back East he would probably have been a consumptive; out here, he was merely short-winded.

  • He galloped around the field until he was winded or decided that there was nothing to be frightened about.

  • What was a drowned wolf, when there was a winded buck not far ahead?

  • As she approached them, light running like liquid down the side of her winded robe, she smiled and held out her hand.