noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   exhalation

   "Diarmid sang in a language Camrose didn't know, with a lot of liquid sounds mixed up with exhalings from deep in the throat."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of exhale form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

breath

Example

More examples

"She snatched him up in a whirlwind, exhaling flames from his pierced chest, and impaled him on the point of a rock."

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