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Exhalation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of exhaling; breathing out countable, uncountable

    "short exhalations of breath"

  2. 2
    the act of expelling air from the lungs wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    exhaled breath wordnet
  5. 5
    A bright phenomenon; a meteor. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation.

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