outhale
outhale verb: to exhale.
Verb
outhale (third-person singular simple present outhales, present participle outhaling, simple past and past participle outhaled)
- 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 present | outhales |
|---|---|
| present participle | outhaling |
| past participle | outhaled |
| past | outhaled |
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.
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