单词 | hyperventilate |
释义 | hyperventilate (once / 101891 pages) v To hyperventilate is to breathe so unusually fast that you feel dizzy or panicked. You might hyperventilate after exercising too hard on a hot day, or because you're anxious about speaking in front of a crowd. When you hyperventilate, your body starts to lose carbon dioxide much faster than normal. This is what causes wooziness or even fainting in people who hyperventilate. There are many reasons for this rapid breathing, including being at a very high altitude, reacting badly to a medication, or just feeling very fearful. Hyperventilate combines the Greek hyper-, "over" or "beyond," and ventilate, from the Latin ventilare, "fan" or "agitate." WORD FAMILYhyperventilate: hyperventilated, hyperventilates, hyperventilating, hyperventilation+/vent: vented, venter, ventilate, venting, vents/vented: unvented/venter: venters, ventral/ventilate: hyperventilate, ventilated, ventilates, ventilating, ventilation, ventilator, ventilatory/ventilated: unventilated/ventilation: ventilations/ventilator: ventilators/venting: ventings/ventral: ventrally USAGE EXAMPLESOn Reddit and elsewhere, Gamergaters hyperventilated over the alleged malice of individual writers and compiled lists of PR and marketing executives to contact. Slate(Dec 14, 2016) She was hyperventilating as they crossed Blackfriars Bridge, Darren says. The Guardian(Dec 10, 2016) Now the press is breathing heavily into a paper bag, hyperventilating that Mr. Trump is still tweeting. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1v breathe excessively hard and fast The mountain climber started to hyperventilate Hyper breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs 2v produce hyperventilation in The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient Hyper care for, treat provide treatment for |
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