Meanings
comparative more asthmatically · superlative most asthmatically
- In an asthmatic manner.
He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.
1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves2 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, JafferyHe 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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