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Hyperventilate Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Hyperventilate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

produce hyperventilation in

"The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient"

2

breathe excessively hard and fast

"The mountain climber started to hyperventilate"

3

To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.

See Also
hyperventilator hyperventilation hyperventilating overbreathe breathe hyperventilative deeply hyperventilates
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
treat breathe
Rhyming Words
ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate
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