Dictionary

outbreathe en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + breathe.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To exhaust or deprive of breath.
2. (transitive) To breathe out; expire.
   • II Scarsely had Phoebus in the glooming East 10 Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast; When the last deadly smoke aloft did steeme That signe of last outbreathed life did seeme Unto the watchman on the castle wall, 15 Who thereby dead that balefull Beast did deeme, And to his Lord and Ladie lowd gan call, To tell how he had seene the Dragons fatall fall. 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
3. (intransitive) To issue as a breath; exhale.
   • He showed the two men from Vinland how to fit the rubber masks over their noses. “Bethink you to outbreathe through your mouths, and you’ll be fine.” 2013, Harry Turtledove & L. Sprague deCamp, Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places, →ISBN:

Forms

Antonyms

inhale (antonym(s) of “to issue as a breath”) · breathe in (antonym(s) of “to issue as a breath”) · inbreathe (antonym(s) of “to issue as a breath”)