as in to gasp
to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty he was so nervous he began hyperventilating, and the extra oxygen made him dizzy

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Recent Examples of hyperventilate 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 But as the huge company hyperventilates over the landmark decision and the possibility of a Ma Bell-type breakup, many of the marketers that feed the tech titan’s online advertising coffers are maintaining a relative calm. Adriana Lee, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 The first was Tom Weeks, the owner of the hyperventilating dog. By Andrew R Chow/granbury, Texas, TIME, 8 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for hyperventilate 

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“Hyperventilate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperventilate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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