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outhale en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of out + inhale.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To exhale.
    • "Inhale, outhale," a skinny black man in a dirty white T-shirt chants. "Inhale, outhale." 2002, Jana Abrams Karam, Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS, page 237:
    • How it worked was, for those few brief seconds, you stopped thinking "inhale, outhale" and instead you thought, "Dig it! That sure is a groooooooovy tune!" 2006, Vaguen, Chris Gibbs, T. J. Dawe, The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, page 27:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outhaling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outhaled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outhaled Tense=Past lexicographic
outhales Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic