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asthmatic
[ az-mat-ik, as- ]
adjective
- having or experiencing asthma.
- relating to asthma:
an asthmatic cough.
- suggestive of the wheezing or whistling sound symptomatic of asthma:
We'll be listening for the telltales signs of imminent disaster: the last, asthmatic gasps from our geriatric central heating boiler.
noun
- a person with asthma.
asthmatic
/ æsˈmætɪk /
adjective
- of, relating to, or having asthma
noun
- a person who has asthma
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Usage
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Derived Forms
- asthˈmatically, adverb
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Other Words From
- asth·mat·i·cal·ly adverb
- an·ti·asth·mat·ic adjective noun
- non·asth·mat·ic adjective noun
- non·asth·mat·i·cal·ly adverb
- post·asth·mat·ic adjective
- un·asth·mat·ic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of asthmatic1
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Example Sentences
(Police at the scene initially claimed that the asthmatic, 350-pound Garner had suffered a heart attack).
She had earlier offered a terse description of how her asthmatic brother had come to die.
For example, I cannot imagine trying to treat a diabetic patient without insulin, or an asthmatic patient without bronchodilators.
Lifelong asthmatic Moises Velasquez-Manoff infected himself with parasites to improve his health.
Eosinophilic leukocytes are common in gonorrheal pus and in asthmatic sputum.
Dan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.
It is the bane of asthmatic patients, but the gardener makes short work of it.
Its age and asthmatic condition should have made it an object of veneration to the chauffeur, but such was not the case.
And he liquidates his obligations to a great deal of asthmatic cough, while the jumping frog does his bidding.
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