気き息そく奄えん々えん

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', taru-adjective, adverb taking the 'to' particle

gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; on the brink of death

Literary yojijukugo describing a state of feeble, labored breathing, often implying near death. Used in formal or written contexts.

• 彼かれは気き息そく奄えん々えんとして病びょう床しょうに伏ふくしていた。

  He lay in bed, gasping for breath.

• 気き息そく奄えん々えんの状じょう態たいで発はっ見けんされた。

  He was found in a state of barely breathing.