hyperventilate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.04 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When I tried it, I hyperventilated."
- "Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop")."
- "Sometimes on the highway I had to pull over to hyperventilate and sob."
- "Even some middle-of-the-road economic commentators have been hyperventilating, saying that she’s essentially calling for price controls, which is odd, because she didn’t say anything like that."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English ventilate English hyperventilate From hyper- + ventilate.