Exhalation
[eksə'leɪʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(n.) The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
(n.) That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
(n.) A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Evaporation, emission of vapor.[2]. Vapor, fume, effluvium, steam, reek, smoke, fog.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mist, damp, effluvium
ANT:Absorption, exsiccation, inhalation
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Examples
- From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Robert