outbreathing
outbreathing is the present participle and gerund of outbreathe.
Meaning of outbreathe
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
Noun
outbreathing (plural outbreathings)
- A breathing out; an exhalation.
Forms of outbreathing
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Questions about outbreathing
- What does outbreathing mean?
- Outbreathing means a breathing out; an exhalation.
- What is outbreathing the present participle and gerund of?
- Outbreathing is the present participle and gerund of outbreathe.
- What part of speech is outbreathing?
- Outbreathing is a noun.
- What is the plural of outbreathing?
- The plural of outbreathing is outbreathings.
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