Synonyms: breathless, pulseless, inanimate
Definition: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Usage: an inanimate body; pulseless and dead
Similar words: dead
Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Usage: the nerve is dead; a dead pallor; he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Synonyms: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic
Definition: not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
Usage: breathless at thought of what I had done; breathless from running; followed the match with breathless interest
Similar words: asphyxiating
Definition: tending to deprive of oxygen
Usage: asphyxiating gasses
Similar words: suffocating, suffocative, smothering
Definition: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Usage: the choking June dust; the smothering soft voices; smothering heat; the room was suffocating--hot and airless
Similar words: short-winded, blown, winded, pursy
Definition: breathing laboriously or convulsively
Synonyms: breathless, breathtaking
Definition: tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
Usage: a breathless flight; breathtaking adventure
Similar words: exciting
Definition: creating or arousing excitement
Usage: an exciting account of her trip