heavy
breathing
We listened to the old man’s heavy breathing as he lay in his hospital bed.
All I could hear was the floor creaking and the sound of our heavy breathing —all of us were so scared.
He was distracted by all the heavy breathing and coughing that came from the audience.
The romantic scene culminates in the usual ecstatic heavy breathing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aerobic
asphyxia
asphyxiation
aspirate
breathable
breathe (something) in
choke
draw breathphrase
expire
hyperventilation
non-breathing
out of breath
pant
puff
puffed
puffed out
puffer
stifle
strangulation
suffocate