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underbreathing

underbreathing is the present participle and gerund of underbreathe.

Meaning of underbreathe

Verb

underbreathe (third-person singular simple present underbreathes, present participle underbreathing, simple past and past participle underbreathed)

  1. To hypoventilate.
    • Buteyko believed that teaching people with asthma to underbreathe could raise their carbon dioxide levels and dilate their airways without medication.2014, Sarah Brewer, Overcoming Asthma: The Complete Complementary Health Program, →ISBN

Questions about underbreathing

What is underbreathing the present participle and gerund of?
Underbreathing is the present participle and gerund of underbreathe.

Words near underbreathing in the dictionary

  1. underbreaks
  2. underbreath
  3. underbreathe
  4. underbreathed
  5. underbreathes
  6. underbreathing
  7. underbreaths
  8. underbred
  9. underbredness
  10. underbreeches
  11. underbreed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underbreathing (page history and authors); underbreathe (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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