breathing out

Questions about breathing out

What does breathing out mean?

breathing out means "the act of expelling air from the lungs".

What is another word for breathing out?

Close synonyms include exhalation, expiration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breathing out a common word?

breathing out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.