fighting/struggling for breath

idiom

: having a lot of difficulty breathing
He was fighting/struggling for breath.

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In the emergency wards, the hennaed hands of mothers fanned the twig-like ribcages of babies struggling for breath, and other parents told of sleeping children killed in their beds when artillery shells crashed into their neighborhoods. Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 As Badr was washed, Habiba lay on a dirty pink mattress outside the building, struggling for breath. Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023

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“Fighting/struggling for breath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fighting%2Fstruggling%20for%20breath. Accessed 7 Mar. 2025.

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