exhalation

Definitions

1. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
   countable, uncountable
2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam
   countable, uncountable
3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“short exhalations of breath”

“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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt 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.”

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