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What does hyperventilate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.
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Every third dog causes me to hyperventilate and produce insistent grunting sounds.
He then began to hyperventilate and allegedly fainted and hit the car in front of him.
More severely affected children hyperventilate both awake and asleep.
Taking deep breaths she began to hyperventilate, but in a more discreet way.
In times of extreme stress, people may shake uncontrollably, hyperventilate or even vomit.
To find out if you over-breathe or hyperventilate the device includes a procedure for measuring your volume of lung ventilation.

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