exhalation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

exhalation (countable and uncountable, plural exhalations)

1. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out

   short exhalations of breath

2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam

   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,

     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.

3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.

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exhalation f (plural exhalations)

1. exhalation

• “exhalation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).