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hypoventilate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hy-poven-ti-late
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To undergo hypoventilation.

Intransitive verb

Etymology

From hypo- + ventilate.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

hypoventilates (present, singular) hypoventilating (participle, present) hypoventilated (participle, past) hypoventilated (past)

Derived Forms

hypoventilator

Frequently Paired Words

underventilated

Questions

What does hypoventilate mean?
To undergo hypoventilation.
Where does hypoventilate come from?
From hypo- + ventilate.

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