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mouth-breathe

mouth-breathe verb: to breathe through the mouth.

Verb

mouth-breathe (third-person singular simple present mouth-breathes, present participle mouth-breathing, simple past and past participle mouth-breathed)

  1. To breathe through the mouth.
    • This problem may be increased if the individual mouth-breathes, which causes the secretions to dry and become thicker.1993, Hilary Johnson, Amanda Scott, A Practical Approach to Saliva Control, Communication Skill Builders, →ISBN, page 11
    • During the 10 minutes the test subjects were mouth-breathing to encourage deeper penetration of nitrous acid in the respiratory system so as to induce a mild cooling which would increase their responsiveness to irritants.1993 July, Energy Research Abstracts, volume 18, number 7, page 479

Forms of mouth-breathe

third-person singular presentmouth-breathes
present participlemouth-breathing
past participlemouth-breathed
pastmouth-breathed
alternative formmouthbreathe

Questions about mouth-breathe

What does mouth-breathe mean?
Mouth-breathe means to breathe through the mouth.
What part of speech is mouth-breathe?
Mouth-breathe is a verb.
What is the past tense of mouth-breathe?
The past tense of mouth-breathe is mouth-breathed.

Words near mouth-breathe in the dictionary

  1. mouth the words
  2. mouth ulcer
  3. mouth ulcers
  4. mouth wash
  5. mouth washes
  6. mouth-breathe
  7. mouth-breathed
  8. mouth-breather
  9. mouth-breathers
  10. mouth-breathes
  11. mouth-breathing

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