BREATHE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathe out mean? 

• BREATHE OUT (verb)
  The verb BREATHE OUT has 1 sense:

1. expel air

  Familiarity information: BREATHE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel air

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

breathe out; exhale; expire

Context example:

Exhale when you lift the weight

Hypernyms (to "breathe out" is one way to...):

breathe; respire; suspire; take a breath (draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "breathe out"):

snort (make a snorting sound by exhaling hard)

blow (exhale hard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The volume of air that a subject can breathe out during the first 6 seconds of exhalation after maximum inhalation.

(Forced Expiratory Volume in 6 Seconds, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The volume of air that a subject can breathe out during the first second of exhalation after maximum inhalation.

(Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)