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breath-holding

breath-holding is the alternative form of breathholding.

Meaning of breathholding

Noun

breathholding (uncountable)

  1. The action of holding one's breath (a cessation of breathing).

Questions about breath-holding

What is breath-holding the alternative form of?
Breath-holding is the alternative form of breathholding.

Words near breath-holding in the dictionary

  1. breath strips
  2. breath test
  3. breath tests
  4. breath-catching
  5. breath-catchingly
  6. breath-holding
  7. breathabilities
  8. breathability
  9. breathable
  10. breathableness
  11. breathalizer

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