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wind-broken
[ wind-broh-kuhn ]
adjective
- having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
wind-broken
adjective
- (of a horse) asthmatic or heaving
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wind-broken1
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Example Sentences
The race which had flushed the girl's cheeks and deepened her breathing, left the fat squatter wind-broken and exhausted.
These wind-broken chaps are always in before the second death, seeing they always miss the first.
Her name was Skates; Pod said he so named her because she ran all the way and beat his pride-broken, wind-broken horse into town.
Farther on he brought up trembling in every limb at the fall of a wind-broken tree.
Judson knew that the last lap was not in his trembling muscles or in the thumping heart and the wind-broken lungs.
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