adjective. Afflicted with dyspnea; possessing unhealthy breathing.

adjective. not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty

""Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours.""

asphyxiating  blown  pursy  short-winded  smothering