outbreathe
outbreathe verb: to exhaust or deprive of breath.
Verb
outbreathe (third-person singular simple present outbreathes, present participle outbreathing, simple past and past participle outbreathed)
- To exhaust or deprive of breath.
- To breathe out; expire.
- II Scarsely had Phoebus in the glooming East 10 Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast; When the last deadly smoke aloft did steeme That signe of last outbreathed life did seeme Unto the watchman on the castle wall, 15 Who thereby dead that balefull Beast...1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921
- To issue as a breath; exhale.
- He showed the two men from Vinland how to fit the rubber masks over their noses. “Bethink you to outbreathe through your mouths, and you’ll be fine.”2013, Harry Turtledove & L. Sprague deCamp, Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places, →ISBN
Antonyms of outbreathe
Forms of outbreathe
| third-person singular present | outbreathes |
|---|---|
| present participle | outbreathing |
| past participle | outbreathed |
| past | outbreathed |
Origin of outbreathe
From out- + breathe.
Questions about outbreathe
- What does outbreathe mean?
- Outbreathe means to exhaust or deprive of breath.
- What part of speech is outbreathe?
- Outbreathe is a verb.
- What is the past tense of outbreathe?
- The past tense of outbreathe is outbreathed.
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