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UK
/hˌaɪpəvˈɛntɪlˌeɪt/
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VERB
-
breathe excessively hard and fast
The mountain climber started to hyperventilate -
produce hyperventilation in
The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient
How To Use hyperventilate In A Sentence
- I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
- This compensation is usually excellent, as most asthmatics hyperventilate during an episode of wheezing with dyspnea.
- The mountain climber started to hyperventilate
- I hyperventilated & then burst into tears at the launch we went to. Nebula Weekend, day 1
- Her mouth moved opened and closed with each breath, coming in such rapid fire that she was sure she would hyperventilate any second.
- Patients with idiopathic central sleep apnea will hyperventilate chronically, both awake and asleep.
- In any of the places where men discuss truly monstrous and dangerous plans, in Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Tehran, watching this hyperventilated criticism of Israel for a shoot-out on a boat must strike them as laughable. Beating Up on Israel
- In a recent study on panic attacks, research subjects who hyperventilated in the hour before an attack and during control periods had consistently lower-than-normal carbon-dioxide levels. Corrections & Amplifications
- I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
- Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, dismissed the initiative as "lipstick on the pig," and Representative Pete Stark D-California hyperventilated that the new proposal "ends Medicare as we know it, plain and simple. Menachem Rosensaft: Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform