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outbreathed

outbreathed is the simple past and past participle of outbreathe.

Meaning of outbreathe

Verb

outbreathe (third-person singular simple present outbreathes, present participle outbreathing, simple past and past participle outbreathed)

  1. (transitive) To exhaust or deprive of breath.
  2. (transitive) 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
  3. (intransitive) 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

Questions about outbreathed

What is outbreathed the simple past and past participle of?
Outbreathed is the simple past and past participle of outbreathe.

Words near outbreathed in the dictionary

  1. outbreasted
  2. outbreasting
  3. outbreasts
  4. outbreath
  5. outbreathe
  6. outbreathed
  7. outbreathes
  8. outbreathing
  9. outbreathings
  10. outbreaths
  11. outbred

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