Breath-catching

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Inspiring awe or deep admiration; impressive.

    "The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body."

  2. 2
    Extremely frightening or overwhelming.

    "To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet."

  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breath, catching.

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"The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body."

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breath-catchingly

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