asthmatically

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adverb

In an asthmatic manner.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adverbasthmatically (comparative more asthmatically, superlative most asthmatically)

comparative more asthmatically · superlative most asthmatically

  1. In an asthmatic manner.

    He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.

    1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
    2 more examples

    The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house.

    1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery

    He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically, glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch.

    1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Origin

Translations

Polish astmatycznie
  • astmatyczniein an asthmatic manner
Portuguese asmaticamente
  • asmaticamentein an asthmatic manner
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APA

asthmatically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asthmatically

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Chicago

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