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misinhale en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + inhale.

Meanings

  1. To have trouble when inhaling.
    • She had not smoked pot in a dozen years, but she toked smoothly as ever. No misinhaling. 1997, Chris K. James, A Fling With a Demon Lover, page 102:
    • She misinhaled and got lost for a moment in a storm of coughing. 1979, Peter Collier, Downriver, page 234:
    • The So-it-goes motif from Slaughterhouse 5, which had half Haight Ashbury misinhaling at the raw truthfulness of its recurrence, pops up in an even more irritating form, 'Hi ho'. 1976, The New Review - Volume 3, Issues 31-36 -, page 72:

Forms

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misinhaled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misinhaled Tense=Past lexicographic
misinhaling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misinhales Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic