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Adjective: short-winded  'short 'win-did
  1. Breathing laboriously or convulsively
    - blown, pursy [archaic], winded
     
  2. Breathing heavily (as after exertion)
    - out of breath, breathless, gasping

See also: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic