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breathless
  • a  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
  • s  tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
    a breathless flight
  • s  appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
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breathtaking
  • s  tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
    breathtaking adventure
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breech-loading
  • a  (of guns) designed to be loaded at the breech
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breeding
  • n  elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
  • n  the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
    a woman of breeding and refinement
  • n  helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
  • n  the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
  • n  the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
  • v  call forth
  • v  copulate with a female, used especially of horses
  • v  cause to procreate (animals)
  • v  have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
  • s  producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring
    the breeding population
    retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
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breezy
  • s  fresh and animated
    her breezy nature
  • s  abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
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briary
  • s  having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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