Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or an instance of inhaling.
  • noun An inhalant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of inhaling; inspiration; an indrawing, as of air or medicinal vapors into the lungs.
  • noun In pharmacy, a preparation intended to be inhaled in the form of vapor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of inhaling
  • noun The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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

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Examples

  • Even after evacuation, long-term inhalation of ash and exposure to fluorine may result in reduced productivity.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • Even after evacuation, long-term inhalation of ash and exposure to fluorine may result in reduced productivity.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • His Nikes compressed on the asphault and the sound of his inhalation was the only noise on the country road.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • As Doctor Larry Bush just related, they believe this was contracted in the general area of Lantana, Florida, but nevertheless, federal officials sparing no expense and no time to try to find everything they can about where this man, where he traveled, and what he might have ingested or what he might have breathed that could have given him this -- what is described as inhalation anthrax -- Bill.

    CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2001 2001

  • In many cases of extraction of the temporary teeth of children, I make them at the instant I grasp the tooth take _one_ very violent inhalation, which is sufficient.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

  • Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis.

    NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011

  • Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis.

    NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011

  • On autopsy, the cause looked for all the world like anthrax, in the same unusual form - so-called inhalation anthrax - that terrified the nation in 2001.

    NYT > Home Page By GINA KOLATA 2011

  • Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis.

    NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011

  • EPA allowed toxic chemicals to harm poor Katrina victims: A GAO report revealed that EPA publicly downplayed the risk of asbestos inhalation, which is often released during home demolition, to city residents and failed to deploy air monitors in predominantly African-American neighborhoods.

    Darwiniana 2008

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