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mouth breathing

/ˈmaʊθ ˌbɹiːðɪŋ/

mouth breathing noun: long-term breathing through the mouth, often caused by an obstruction to breathing through the nose.

Noun

mouth breathing (countable and uncountable, plural mouth breathings)

  1. Long-term breathing through the mouth, often caused by an obstruction to breathing through the nose.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: breathing through the mouth.

mouth breathing meaning in Tamil

mouth breathing in Tamil

வாய் உயிர்ப்பு, வாயினால் மூச்சுயிர்த்தல்

Forms of mouth breathing

pluralmouth breathings

Questions about mouth breathing

What does mouth breathing mean?
Mouth breathing means long-term breathing through the mouth, often caused by an obstruction to breathing through the nose.
What is mouth breathing in Tamil?
Mouth breathing in Tamil is வாய் உயிர்ப்பு, வாயினால் மூச்சுயிர்த்தல். See Mouth breathing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mouth breathing?
Mouth breathing is a noun.
How do you pronounce mouth breathing?
Mouth breathing is pronounced /ˈmaʊθ ˌbɹiːðɪŋ/.
What is the plural of mouth breathing?
The plural of mouth breathing is mouth breathings.

Words near mouth breathing in the dictionary

  1. mouth
  2. mouth bar
  3. mouth bars
  4. mouth breather
  5. mouth breathers
  6. mouth breathing
  7. mouth breathings
  8. mouth cavities
  9. mouth cavity
  10. mouth cone
  11. mouth cones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mouth breathing (page history and authors); mouth breathing (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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