Halitus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vapour.

    "She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun."

  2. 2
    exhaled breath wordnet

Synonyms

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exhalation

Example

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"The faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air."

Etymology

From Latin halitus.

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