Exhalation
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process of exhaling; breathing out countable, uncountable
"short exhalations of breath"
- 2 the act of expelling air from the lungs wordnet
- 3 That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam countable, uncountable
"exhalations from the earth or flowers"
- 4 exhaled breath wordnet
- 5 A bright phenomenon; a meteor. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God."
Etymology
From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation.