BREATHING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathing out mean? 

• BREATHING OUT (noun)
  The noun BREATHING OUT has 1 sense:

1. the act of expelling air from the lungs

  Familiarity information: BREATHING OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHING OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expelling air from the lungs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breathing out; exhalation; expiration

Hypernyms ("breathing out" is a kind of...):

breath (the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breathing out"):

huffing; puffing; snorting (an act of forcible exhalation)

blow; puff (forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth)

wind (breath)

Holonyms ("breathing out" is a part of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

 Context examples 

Expelling modified air from the lungs; breathing out.

(Expiration, NCI Thesaurus)

Breathing out clears carbon dioxide from the lungs.

(Carbon dioxide, NCI Dictionary)