appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest"
tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"