outhale

English

Blend of out +‎ inhale

outhale (third-person singular simple present outhales, present participle outhaling, simple past and past participle outhaled)

(nonstandard, rare) To exhale.
- 2002, Jana Abrams Karam, Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS, page 237:
  "Inhale, outhale," a skinny black man in a dirty white T-shirt chants. "Inhale, outhale."
- 2006, Vaguen, Chris Gibbs, T. J. Dawe, The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, page 27:
  How it worked was, for those few brief seconds, you stopped thinking "inhale, outhale" and instead you thought, "Dig it! That sure is a groooooooovy tune!"

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