inhalation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
noun a medication to be taken by inhaling it

From inhale + -ation.

Again there was a long inhalation and exhalation. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
The night was breathing in long regular inhalations. — On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Wilhelmine von Hillern
Inhalation should be through the nostrils, not the mouth. — The Ontario High School Reader, Aletta E. Marty

inspiration, aspiration, intake, breathing in

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