mouth breathing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaʊθ ˌbɹiːðɪŋ/

Noun

mouth breathing (countable and uncountable, plural mouth breathings)

  1. (medicine) Long-term breathing through the mouth, often caused by an obstruction to breathing through the nose.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: breathing through the mouth.

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