hyperventilate
verb
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Hyperventilating can be a response to fear and anxiety. A test pilot who panics and hyperventilates faces a dangerous situation. When the level of carbon dioxide in your blood goes down and the oxygen level goes up, blood vessels constrict because of the chemical changes and the body can't get enough oxygen (even though it's there in the blood), and the pilot can become lightheaded and may even faint. To guard against this, pilots are taught to control their breathing. On the ground, the usual remedy for hyperventilation is breathing into a paper bag, which raises the level of carbon dioxide and restores normal breathing.
Examples of hyperventilate in a Sentence
Sarah Klein, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
Juliana Peres Magalhães, the nanny for a suburban Virginia family who pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month in a double homicide case, can be seen hyperventilating in new police body camera footage from the Fairfax County Police Department.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
Learning that Simone Biles attended her gold-medal-winning performance in the long jump, 25-year-old Tara Davis-Woodhall combusted, sounding like a hyperventilating teenager.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
Wall Street has been hyperventilating over Nvidia and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
—Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Hyperventilate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperventilate. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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