Breathing and Quick

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Breathing adjective - Having or showing life.

Usage example: realized that he didn't need a comic-book superhero, since he had a real, breathing hero in his father

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Quick and breathing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quick" instead an adjective "Breathing".

Nearby Words: breathe, breathless, breath, breather, breathed

Quick adjective - Having or showing life.

Usage example: after the battle, there was a hurried accounting of the quick and the dead

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Breathing and quick are semantically related. You can use "Breathing" instead an adjective "Quick".

Nearby Words: quicken, quickly, quickness, quickie

Despite the fact that he is breathing and semi-conscious at the time and thus does not need CPR, a fact her rival for his affections is quick to point out.

Source: Kiss of Life
It's played for laughs in Thor, where after accidentally running Thor over with a car and upon seeing Thor (and he was conscious and breathing fine on his own), Darcy was quick to point out she knows CPR to help him.

Source: CPR (Clean, Pretty, Reliable)
Those who didn't keel over and die from not breathing were sent to "school prison" if they slammed the desk lid while snatching a quick breath under the desk, where they'd be strung up in a dungeon with rats nibbling at their toes.

Source: Sadist Teacher

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