overbreathed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ breathed

Adjective[edit]

overbreathed (comparative more overbreathed, superlative most overbreathed)

  1. Breathed too much, or by too many people.
    • 2003, Lynn Hightower, High Water, page 19:
      I shared a room with Claire until we went our separate ways—she to dorm life, sororities, and the University of South Carolina, and me to unwed motherhood and adult education classes held at night in the warm overbreathed air of the high school []
    • 2014, Riley J. Ford, Carpe DiEmily:
      Without the air conditioning system working, the plane was quickly becoming a suffocating den of hot, recycled, overbreathed air.