English

Adverb

asthmatically ‎(comparative more asthmatically, superlative most asthmatically)

1. In an asthmatic manner.
   • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

     He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.

   • 1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery:

     The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house.

   • 1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile:

     He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically, glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch.