hyperventilate
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Synonyms
blow, gasp, heave, pant, puff, wheeze
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Finneran said two of his 12 players began hyperventilating due to the heat and had to leave the game. — Mike Nortrup, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "Rec Sports Spotlight: Winfield Sting softball makes run at national tournament," 24 Aug. 2019 Approaching the first landing in July of 1969, each of them sat hyperventilating. — Brandon R. Brown, Smithsonian, "Apollo Engineers Discuss What It Took to Land on the Moon," 12 July 2019 University of Illinois Police Detective Eric Stiverson said Christensen began to tremble, break out in hives and appeared to hyperventilate under when he was confronted with inconsistencies in his version of events. — Washington Post, "FBI probing suspect’s claim that scholar was 1 of 13 victims," 17 June 2019 Marketing types are certainly hyperventilating over cans’ potential. — Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post, "Once a niche, canned wine enters the mainstream," 21 June 2019 HBO Game of Thrones fans, begin hyperventilating now: The first two episodes of the last season will be shorter than 60 minutes, Entertainment Weekly reports. — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, "There's More Bad News for 'Game of Thrones' Fans—And This Time, It's the Episode Length," 14 Mar. 2019 But there’s another way of thinking about the Lakers that doesn’t require hyperventilating every second of every day of the NBA season. — Ben Cohen, WSJ, "Buy Low on LeBron James and the Lakers," 15 Feb. 2019 In 2013, Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, argued that the media was hyperventilating about the humanities crisis. — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, "STEM majors way up, humanities down, among Washington college students, new data show," 13 Aug. 2018 Among the impressive lineup that night was a Pulitzer Prize winner, a poet laureate, and some dude from Long Island trying not to hyperventilate. — J. Bryan Mcgeever, New York Times, "Empathy From a Pro," 8 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hyperventilate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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