asthmatically

adv

asthmatically

adv

Etymology From asthmatic + -ally.

1

In an asthmatic manner.

  • He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:
  • 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:
1 more example
  • 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:

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