Blowing - to pant, gasp
Dyspneic - difficulty with or labored respiration
Emphysematous - having a condition characterized by air-filled expansions of body tissues; specifically: a condition of the lung marked by abnormal enlargement of the alveoli with loss of pulmonary elasticity that is characterized especially by shortness of breath and may lead to impairment of heart action
Gasping - to breathe laboriously
Gulping - to catch the breath as if in taking a long drink
Heaving - to pant
Huffing - to proceed with labored breathing
Hyperpneic - abnormally rapid or deep breathing
Hyperventilating - to breathe rapidly and deeply; undergo hyperventilation (i.e., excessive rate and depth of respiration leading to abnormal loss of carbon dioxide from the blood)
Puffing - to breathe hard; panting
Stertorous - characterized by a harsh snoring or gasping sound
Stifling - to be or become unable to breathe easily
Strangling - stifling
Wheezing - to breathe with difficulty usually with a whistling sound
Winding - to cause to be out of breath; to make short of breath
