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Definition of winded : breathing laboriously or convulsively

Synonyms:

indrawn, dyspneal, dyspnoeal, choke, blown, short-winded, gasping, deep, chesty, dyspneic, pursy, deeply, labored, bronchial, heavily, out of breath, dyspnoeic, panting, breathless, pulmonary

meandered, convoluted, turned, twisted, wound, coiled

Usage examples:

• I've watched them dash into the waves after a bird, only to be thrown back, bruised and winded, high up on the ledges of the rock. - "Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North", Fullerton Waldo.
• Rainey managed to shake his head and, with Lund's boughlike arm for support, got to his feet, winded, shaken, aching from his pounding and the crash against the whale. - "A Man to His Mate", J. Allan Dunn.
• Chaucer suffers the interruption with only the mildest of protests, and proceeds to tell instead " a lytel thing in prose," a translation of a French translation of a long- winded moral allegory by an Italian friar- preacher. - "Chaucer and His England", G. G. Coulton.