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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not breathing.

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Examples

  • When someone is clothed in unbreathing polyester, I am not inclined to go anywhere near their taint.

    10,000 BC IS A CRITICAL DARLING 2008

  • Whenever the ship ploughed into the oncoming sea, we were swept around within the surf, unbreathing, while the stern rose into the air, the propellers out of their element screaming till they fell back down into the sea, and we on the bow leapt up again, unnaturally.

    A Floating World Martin Rubin 2011

  • That almost unbreathing feeling of, God no, this cannnot be happening.

    Twilight Lexicon » Movie News 2008

  • Six unbreathing stone golems, seven-foot statues given life and motion by the High Magick, stood guard in the room to protect the Mages from their supplicants, their mirror-polished grey granite skin reflecting the softer stone of their surroundings.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • As they watched, unbreathing, another joined it, and another.

    The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

  • For several seconds, Cynny stood rigid and unbreathing, and then she clawed the pills and capsules out of the bag, bits of marijuana sticking to her fingers, fled into the bathroom, and without hesitation threw them in the toilet and pulled the handle.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • I had come instantly out of sleep and lay tense, unbreathing.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • I had come instantly out of sleep and lay tense, unbreathing.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • I had come instantly out of sleep and lay tense, unbreathing.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • He's got a gang and he's gonna pound you to a bloody, maybe unbreathing, pulp.

    Revisiting a Science Fiction Classic: ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card Mirtika 2006

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