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short-winded definition

short·-winded (-win′did)

adjective

  1. easily put out of breath by exertion
  2. breathing with quick, labored breaths
  3. brief, often overly or undesirably so: said of speech or writing

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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