"breath-catching" meaning in English

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      "word": "breath-catchingly"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more breath-catching",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most breath-catching",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "breath-catching (comparative more breath-catching, superlative most breath-catching)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mel Bradshaw, Death in the Age of Steam: A Mystery, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, James Neufeld, Lois Marshall: A Biography, →ISBN, page 239:",
          "text": "Donal Henahan reported that her performance of it was “breath-catching in its vocal warmth and emotional power.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Harry Harrison, Tunnel Through the Deeps, →ISBN:",
          "text": "For here was a vista that was breath-catching and inspiring, a wholly new thing come into the world.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Inspiring",
          "inspire"
        ],
        [
          "awe",
          "awe"
        ],
        [
          "admiration",
          "admiration"
        ],
        [
          "impressive",
          "impressive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 June 5, “Now Man Conquers Mt. Eiffel”, in Life, volume 56, number 23, page 106:",
          "text": "To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, R.V. Jones, Most Secret War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I asked whether he would mind if I looked through them, and after a few minutes I found the map: it was a breath-catching moment for, as I unfolded it, I saw that it must show the deployment of a whole searchlight regiment covering the entire southern half of Belgium.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Elizabeth Power, Back in the Lion's Den, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely frightening or overwhelming."
      ],
      "id": "en-breath-catching-en-adj-5LP5uot0",
      "links": [
        [
          "frightening",
          "frightening"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelming",
          "overwhelming"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breath, catching."
      ],
      "id": "en-breath-catching-en-adj-N9qbsY-d",
      "links": [
        [
          "breath",
          "breath#English"
        ],
        [
          "catching",
          "catching#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "breath-catching"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "breath-catchingly"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more breath-catching",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most breath-catching",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mel Bradshaw, Death in the Age of Steam: A Mystery, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, James Neufeld, Lois Marshall: A Biography, →ISBN, page 239:",
          "text": "Donal Henahan reported that her performance of it was “breath-catching in its vocal warmth and emotional power.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Harry Harrison, Tunnel Through the Deeps, →ISBN:",
          "text": "For here was a vista that was breath-catching and inspiring, a wholly new thing come into the world.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Inspiring",
          "inspire"
        ],
        [
          "awe",
          "awe"
        ],
        [
          "admiration",
          "admiration"
        ],
        [
          "impressive",
          "impressive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 June 5, “Now Man Conquers Mt. Eiffel”, in Life, volume 56, number 23, page 106:",
          "text": "To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, R.V. Jones, Most Secret War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I asked whether he would mind if I looked through them, and after a few minutes I found the map: it was a breath-catching moment for, as I unfolded it, I saw that it must show the deployment of a whole searchlight regiment covering the entire southern half of Belgium.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Elizabeth Power, Back in the Lion's Den, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely frightening or overwhelming."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "frightening",
          "frightening"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelming",
          "overwhelming"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breath, catching."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "breath",
          "breath#English"
        ],
        [
          "catching",
          "catching#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "breath-catching"
}