About The Word Exhalation
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Exhalation
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What's The Definition Of Exhalation?
[n] the act of expelling air from the lungs
[n] exhaled breath Synonyms | Synonyms for Exhalation: breathing out | expiration | halitus Related Terms | Find terms related to Exhalation: air | breath | effluvium | emanation | emission | evaporation | exhaust | expiration | fog | fume | gas | mist | puff | respiration | steam | suspiration | vapor | whiff See Also | blow | breath | breath | breathing | cough | coughing | external respiration | halitosis | huffing | puff | puffing | respiration | snorting | ventilation | wind Exhalation In Webster's Dictionary \Ex`ha*la"tion\, n. [L. exhalatio: cf. F. exhalaison,
exhalation.]
1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the
form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of
vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as,
exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter,
etc.
Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or
steaming lake. --Milton.
3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the
evening. --Shak.
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