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outhale

outhale verb: to exhale.

Verb

outhale (third-person singular simple present outhales, present participle outhaling, simple past and past participle outhaled)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To exhale.
    • "Inhale, outhale," a skinny black man in a dirty white T-shirt chants. "Inhale, outhale."2002, Jana Abrams Karam, Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS, page 237
    • How it worked was, for those few brief seconds, you stopped thinking "inhale, outhale" and instead you thought, "Dig it! That sure is a groooooooovy tune!"2006, Vaguen, Chris Gibbs, T. J. Dawe, The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, page 27

Forms of outhale

third-person singular presentouthales
present participleouthaling
past participleouthaled
pastouthaled

Origin of outhale

Blend of out + inhale.

Questions about outhale

What does outhale mean?
Outhale means to exhale.
What part of speech is outhale?
Outhale is a verb.
What is the past tense of outhale?
The past tense of outhale is outhaled.

Words near outhale in the dictionary

  1. outgushings
  2. outhack
  3. outhacked
  4. outhacking
  5. outhacks
  6. outhale
  7. outhaled
  8. outhales
  9. outhalf
  10. outhaling
  11. outhalves

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