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stagger breathing

stagger breathing is the present participle and gerund of stagger breathe.

Meaning of stagger breathe

Verb

stagger breathe (third-person singular simple present stagger breathes, present participle stagger breathing, simple past and past participle stagger breathed)

  1. (intransitive) within a choir or wind instrument ensemble, to breathe independently so that no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect

Noun

stagger breathing (uncountable)

  1. a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
    Synonyms:
    staggered breathing

Synonyms of stagger breathing

  • staggered breathing

Questions about stagger breathing

What does stagger breathing mean?
Stagger breathing means a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect.
What is stagger breathing the present participle and gerund of?
Stagger breathing is the present participle and gerund of stagger breathe.
What part of speech is stagger breathing?
Stagger breathing is a noun.

Words near stagger breathing in the dictionary

  1. stagged
  2. stagger
  3. stagger breathe
  4. stagger breathed
  5. stagger breathes
  6. stagger breathing
  7. stagger juice
  8. stagger soup
  9. stagger-through
  10. stagger-throughs
  11. staggerbush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stagger breathing (page history and authors); stagger breathe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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