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misinhale

misinhale verb: to have trouble when inhaling.

Verb

misinhale (third-person singular simple present misinhales, present participle misinhaling, simple past and past participle misinhaled)

  1. To have trouble when inhaling.
    • The So-it-goes motif from Slaughterhouse 5, which had half Haight Ashbury misinhaling at the raw truthfulness of its recurrence, pops up in an even more irritating form, 'Hi ho'.1976, The New Review - Volume 3, Issues 31-36 -, page 72
    • She misinhaled and got lost for a moment in a storm of coughing.1979, Peter Collier, Downriver, page 234

Forms of misinhale

third-person singular presentmisinhales
present participlemisinhaling
past participlemisinhaled
pastmisinhaled

Origin of misinhale

From mis- + inhale.

Questions about misinhale

What does misinhale mean?
Misinhale means to have trouble when inhaling.
What part of speech is misinhale?
Misinhale is a verb.
What is the past tense of misinhale?
The past tense of misinhale is misinhaled.

Words near misinhale in the dictionary

  1. Mising
  2. misingest
  3. misingested
  4. misingesting
  5. misingests
  6. misinhale
  7. misinhaled
  8. misinhales
  9. misinhaling
  10. misinherit
  11. misinheritance

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