exhalation
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exhalation (countable and uncountable, plural exhalations)
- The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
- short exhalations of breath
- That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam
- exhalations from the earth or flowers
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter II, [1]
- For a week the party watched the flood, and each day it receded to a considerable extent. A thick deposit of mud was left behind, but though the sun shone out warmly no offensive exhalations arose.
- A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
Translations[edit]
act or process of exhaling
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that which is exhaled
meteor — see meteor
French[edit]
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exhalation f (plural exhalations)
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Further reading[edit]
- “exhalation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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